Elizabeth Harris v. James B. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
329 F.2d 918 · 1964
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1981
9 federal appellate · 3 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 Burrus · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Hanna v. Home Insurance · Baker v. Carr · Kenner v. Kenner
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.
“[A] divorce action is statutory and is not a proceeding in equity in the traditional sense. As said by the Supreme Court of Tennessee, speaking through the late Chief Justice Grafton Green in Lingner v. Lingner, 165 Tenn. 525, 530 , 56 S.W.2d 749 , 751: “Although a divorce suit is in the nature of a suit in equity * * * nevertheless a divorce suit is sui generis. The procedure is largely controlled by statute. Pleading and practice in divorce cases, as governed by statute, differ in many particulars from pleading and practice in equity cases generally. * * * ‘such cases stand upon grounds peculiar to themselves, and do not fall within the ordinary rules governing chancery proceedings.’ Hackney v. Hackney, 28 Tenn. (9 Humph.) 450.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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