30 Tenn. App. 498 - Mosier v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1994
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Whaley v. Catlett · 10 Smith & H. 35 - Whitson, Admr. v. T.C. Ry. Co. · Motsenbocker v. Shawnee Gas & Electric Co. · Holmes v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Love v. Southern Railway Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Action amended in form, pleadings, and parties. — No civil suit shall be dismissed for want of necessary parties, or on account of the form of action, or for want of proper averments in the pleadings, but the courts shall have power to change the form of action, strike out or insert in the writ and pleadings the names of either plaintiffs or defendants, so as to have the proper parties before the court, and to allow all proper averments to be supplied, upon such terms .as to continuances as the court, in its sound discretion, may see- proper to impose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goodloe v. Puckett
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.