Tully v. Tully’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2014
4 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Wilson · Walden v. Walden · 56 Ga. App. 408 - Pollard v. Phelps · Rivers v. Greenwood Cemetery Inc. · 117 Ga. App. 860 - Olivet v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Public policy frowns on the disinterment of a body and its removal to another burial place, and it is the policy of the law, except in cases of necessity or for laudable purposes, that the sanctity of the grave should be maintained, and that a body once suitably buried should remain undisturbed.” [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Welch v. Welch
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.