Threet v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2025
11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Kincannon · 3 Smith & H. 373 - Wilkinson v. Johnson City Shale Brick Corp. · Vester Gas Range & Mfg. Co. v. Leonard · 3 Smith & H. 179 - Diamond Coal Co. v. Jackson · 11 Smith & H. 1 - Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Maxwell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘. . the Court finds that the defendant was not subject to the provisions of the workmen’s compensation laws of the State of Tennessee, at the time the petitioner was injured while working in the mines of the defendant in that the defendant had only been operating said mines for a period of three weeks prior to the plaintiff’s injury, and during said period of time which it operated said mines it did not have five or more regular employees working for it in the operation of said mines, and the plaintiff could not maintain his suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Law; . . . .”’ (Emphasis added.) 189 Tenn. at 478, 479 , 226 S.W.2d at 87 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ganus v. Asher““ ‘The finding of the Trial Court, that Defendant did not have five or more regular employees at the time of Complainant’s injury, is not supported by material evidence.’ ” 189 Tenn. at 480 , 226 S.W.2d at 88 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ganus v. Asher
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.