34 Tenn. App. 389 - Clark v. Hefley’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2005
16 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 Crofut v. Layton · Simmons v. Leonard · Deaton v. Tennessee Coal & Railroad · Kincaid v. Rogers
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.
“It is the settled construction of this provision of the statute, that if the executory prdmise be capable of entire performance within one year, it is not within this clause.... If when made it was in reality capable of a full and bona fide performance within the year, without the intervention of extraordinary circumstances, then it is to be considered as not within the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . A contest of a will is an attempt by legal proceeding to show that the testator was incapable of making a will or that the instrument is the will of another by reason of undue influence, to the end that the will may be declared void and the estate be administered according to the laws of descent and distribution. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Muse v. Sluder
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.