39 Tenn. App. 539 - Grant v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““36-825. Transfer of property when decree for husband. — In all cases of either divorce or separation, where the relief therein to be decreed by the court is decreed to the husband on his petition, the court may, upon a proper showing of fact, adjust the respective rights of the parties with regard to property jointly owned so as to preserve for such a husband that portion of such joint property as for which, he contributed and paid, and for this purpose the court is hereby empowered to divest and vest title to either real or personal property and, where appropriate, to divest out of a defendant wife any residual title to property prior thereto held by the entireties between her and the complainant. (Acts 1953, ch. 90, Sec. 1 [Williams, Sec. 8446].)””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. Hill

2. ““The general rule is that the Trial Court is vested with wide discretion in matters of divorce, alimony, and attorneys fees, custody and support of minor children, and Appellate Courts will not interfere except upon a showing of an abuse of that discretion. Marmino v. Marmino, 34 Tenn.App. 352 , 238 S.W.2d 105 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hensley v. Hensley