43 Tenn. App. 205 - Schaeffer v. Richard’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2008
8 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 39 Tenn. App. 429 - White v. Mid-City Motor Co. · 1 Smith & H. 167 - Gardner v. Quinn · Winters v. McGhee
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Doubtless, if the Legislature had intended for the judgment to be void when rendered by a Trial Judge more than sixty days after the hearing of the cause without a jury it would have said so in specific words. Since it did not indicate an intention that such judgment should be void, we hold that such provision is directory only and not mandatory. Id. at 343 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dubick v. Dubick
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.