Waddy v. Waddy’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1992
4 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 Cole Manufacturing Co. v. Collier · Jackson, Orr & Co. v. Shelton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, if the defendant pre-deceases his wife, complainant would get nothing in the transaction. If he outlives his wife then this interest would continue in existence or rather the fee would go to the husband of purchaser subject to the mortgage debt. The value of this property is fixed at about $6,000 in which the defendant and his wife have an equity of about $700. The value of the defendant’s interest as the purchaser would take nothing if the wife proved the survivor, Cole Manufacturing Co. v. Collier, 95 Tenn. 115 , 31 S.W. 1000 , 30 L.R.A. 315 , and manifestly would be far less than $1,000, thereby requiring the sale as the lower court held, to be subject to the homestead of the defendant and his occupancy. We find no error in the decree of the Chancellor and it is affirmed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Walls
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.