35 Tenn. App. 464 - Couch v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Bridges v. Nicely (1985), Estate of Radovich (1957)
4 federal appellate · 29 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 Anderson v. Anderson · 32 Tenn. App. 335 - Melton v. Anderson · Sherman County v. Ross · Doty's Adm'r v. Doty's Guardian · Wallace v. Rappleye
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our conclusion is that only a legally adopted child is entitled to the benefit of Code Section 8131; that a legal adoption can be accomplished only by a proceeding in substantial compliance with the adoption statutes ; that therefore the attempted adoption by contract in the present case was ineffectual and hence the complainant is not entitled to the rights of a pretermitted child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. Young
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.