48 Tenn. App. 162 - McCown v. Quillin’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2008
19 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 Crim v. Kessing · Gray v. Palmer · Anderson v. Mitchell · Rush v. Rush · Thomas v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case, the Clerk’s entry on the Trial Docket on June 9, 1953, constituted, in our opinion, evidence justifying the entry of the nunc pro tunc decree, just as in the case of Rush v. Rush, the judge’s note on his docket, constituted necessary evidence. The clerk’s entry on the Trial Docket, in the instant case, may, indeed, have been stronger evidence than a memorandum made by the Chancellor on June 9, 1953.... ... We hold that, in a proper case, a nunc pro tunc decree may be used to correct an existing decree, as well as to supply a missing decree. In the instant case, no change is made, however, in the existing decree of June 17, 1953, except to change, based on the trial docket entry of June 9,1953, the effective date of that decree.... 48 Tenn.App. at 175, 176 , 344 S.W.2d 576 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steele v. Steele
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.