Tennery v. Tennery’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1971
22 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 McFadden v. McFadden · First Baptist Church v. Connor · Shannon Copper Co. v. Potter · Mosher v. Sabra · Nichols v. McClure
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Alimony allowed to a wife successful in a divorce proceeding should be reasonable. What is ‘reasonable’ depends upon the ability of the husband to pay as well as the wife’s necessities. Its allowance and the amount thereof must be governed by the circumstances and facts of each case. The trial court is in a better position to determine what is right and just than we are, and, unless the allowance clearly and palpably is erroneous or excessive, we would not feel like disturbing it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.