26 Tenn. App. 543 - Phillips v. Tidwell’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1995
14 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 7 Smith & H. 329 - New York Casualty Co. v. Lawson · Powers v. McKenzie · Franklin v. Franklin · Equitable Surety Co. v. Stemmons · American Lead Pencil Co. v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the case was tried upon the assumption that the issue was properly made. Without objection, evidence pro and con was heard upon the question, none of which would have been material in the absence of a plea of non est factum; for, by virtue of Code, section 9726, the note purporting to have been signed by the defendant would have been conclusive. 26 Tenn.App. at 551 , 174 S.W.2d at 476 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the burden of proof on the complainant with respect to the execution of the note.”
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.