35 Tenn. App. 534 - Hadley v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably Street v. Calvert (1976), 53 Tenn. App. 549 - Thomas v. Harper (1964)
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 32 Tenn. App. 425 - International Harvester Co. v. Sartain · 31 Tenn. App. 12 - Spivey v. St. Thomas Hospital · 2 Smith & H. 235 - Tennessee Central Railway Co. v. Umenstetter · 34 Tenn. App. 451 - De Rossett v. Malone · Deming & Co. v. Merchants' Cotton-press, etc., 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We understand the cases to hold that where a child is 6 years old or under, Wells v. McNutt, 136 Tenn. 274 , 189 S. W. 365 , and Taylor v. Robertson, 12 Tenn. App. 320 , or where he is 7 to 14 years old, West v. Southern Ry. Co., 20 Tenn. App. 491 , 100 S. W. (2d) 1004 , there is a prima facie presumption he is not capable of negligence, but that the evidence may show him to be capable of negligence and if there be any material evidence of capacity, it is for the jury to decide; whereas if a child is over 14 years old there is a prima facie presumption that he is capable of negligence the same as a grown person, but if there be any material evidence he is incapable, it is a jury question. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The effect of the instruction is to make the deceased child guilty of negligence for failure to stop, look and listen, regardless of the circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradshaw v. Holt
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.