Weaks v. Gress’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1998
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Cole Manufacturing Co. v. Collier · Ames v. Norman · 16 Tenn. App. 124 - Stegall v. City of Chattanooga · In Re the Guardianship of Plowman
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the Ames opinion the Court, by way of dictum, said that Norman, becoming invested with the rights of the husband as they existed at the time of the sale, had the right to occupy and enjoy the profits of the land as owner during the joint lives of the husband and wife. This dictum was nullified in Cole Manufacturing Co. v. Collier, 95 Tenn. 115 , 31 S.W. 1000 , 30 L.R.A. 315 . In that case, the husband's interest in the estate by the entirety had been sold at an execution sale to satisfy his debts, and it was held that the purchaser did not step into the shoes of the husband. That the only interest purchased at the execution sale, was the right to succeed to the estate in the event the wife predeceased the husband. `In the case of In re Guardianship of Plowman, 217 Tenn. 487 , 398 S.W.2d 721 , this Court expressly affirmed Ames , as modified by Cole , and approved the holding in Stegall v. Chattanooga, 16 Tenn. App. 124 , 66 S.W.2d 266 (1932), that the Act of 1919, Chapter 126, now codified as § 36-602, reestablished tenancies by the entirety after their abolition by the Married Woman's Emancipation Act, Chapter 26, Public Acts of 1913, § 36-601 T.C.A., exactly as such tenancies had existed prior to the Emancipation Act so that the common law primacy of the husband in relation to such a tenancy exists at the present time.'" 225 Tenn. at 597-598 , 474 S.W.2d at 426 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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