46 Tenn. App. 572 - Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1999
16 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 Davenport v. Davenport · Stillman v. Stillman · Lamborn v. Lamborn · 26 Tenn. App. 227 - Crane v. Crane · 24 Tenn. App. 580 - Matthews v. Matthews
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Alimony for support of wife and children — Whether the marriage he dissolved absolutely, or a perpetual or temporary separation be decreed, the court may make an order and decree for the suitable support and maintenance of the complainant and her children, or any of them, by the husband, or out of his property, according- to the nature of the case and the circumstances of the parties, the order or decree to remain in the court’s control; and, on application of either party, the court may decree an increase or decrease of such allowance on cause being shown. Courts having jurisdiction of the subject-matter and of the parties are hereby expressly authorized to provide for the future support of wives and children, in proper cases, by fixing some definite amount or amounts to he paid in monthly, semimonthly, or weekly instalments, or otherwise, as circumstances may warrant, and such awards, if not paid, may be enforced by an appropriate process of the court having jurisdiction thereof, including levy of execution. The order or decree of the court may provide that the payments for the support of such child or children shall he paid either to the clerk of the court or direct to- the mother or other person awarded the custody of said child or children. (Code 1858, secs. 2468, (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 26, secs. 10, 19); Shan., sec. 4221; mod. Code 1932, sec. 8446; Acts 1949, ch. 53, sec. 1; mod. C.Supp. 1950, sec. 8446).””
2 later decisions 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.