21 Tenn. App. 171 - Pruitt v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1988
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is immaterial whether the fire spread by running along the ground or sparks carried by the wind. Setting a fire under certain circumstances is prohibited because the great danger of injurious consequences. Whoever thus sets a fire must take all consequences directly and proximately resulting from the setting of the fire, which results in injuries to others or their property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.