Denny v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2017
19 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 Provident Life & Accident Ins. v. Prieto · Mayor of Nashville v. Webb · Creekmore v. Woodard · Whitlow v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co. · Holliston Mills of Tennessee v. McGuffin
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ This Court many years ago in Provident Life & Accident Ins. Co. v. Prieto, 169 Tenn. 124, 159 , 83 S. W. (2d) 251, 264 , among other things said that one of the purposes of this special plea was ‘to enable a plaintiff to be forewarned of every matter of defense intended to be relied on by a defendant, and to require a defendant to make explicit all matters of defense which otherwise would be implicit in pleas of the general issue’. In Creekmore v. Woodard, 192 Tenn. 280, 285 , 241 S. W. (2d) 397, 399 , we said that when such a special plea is required under Code Section 8767 that the general issue is abolished ‘and he must plead specially not only every affirmative defense upon which he expects to rely, but likewise he must specially and expressly make denial of those substantive allegations of the declaration which he plans to deny as a part of his defense.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.