45 Tenn. App. 264 - Troxel v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2006
18 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 Hale v. Johnston · Pennegar v. State · Gaines v. Tennessee Cent. Ry. Co. · Perkins v. Brown · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though Tennessee does not recognize as valid a common law marriage con tracted within this state, our courts do recognize as valid a common law marriage contracted in a state where such a marriage is valid. Pennegar v. State, 87 Tenn. 244 , 10 S.W. 305 , 308, 2 L.R.A. 703 , 10 Am.St.Rep. 648 ; Keith v. Pack, 182 Tenn. 420 , 187 S.W.2d 618 , 159 A. L.R. 101; Smith v. Mitchell, 185 Tenn. 57, 202 S.W.2d 979.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.