28 Tenn. App. 119 - Gardner v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1979
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Taylor v. State · 22 Tenn. App. 287 - Darnell v. McNichols · Gentry v. Betty Lou Bakeries · State Ex Rel. Richardson v. Kenner · Carter v. Pickwick Greyhound Lines, Inc.
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 American Jurisprudence there is the following terse statement of the rule: ‘Since the granting or denying of a new trial is discretionary with the trial judge, his ruling cannot be relied on as ground for reversal unless an abuse of discretion is shown. . . ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Esstman v. Boyd
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.