Pierce v. Tharp’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably 580 So. 2d 1140 - Ryals v. Pigott (1990), Watson v. Cleveland Chair Co. (1989)
26 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 27 Tenn. App. 182 - Davis v. Mitchell · Gilpin v. Burrage · Moore v. Neely · 9 Smith & H. 1 - Tramell v. Tramell · City of Bristol v. Bostwick
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test by which the question involved . is to be determined is whether the services rendered by the attorneys . inured to the benefit of the entire estate as distinguished from services rendered to individuals claiming an interest in the estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leaver v. McBride
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.