49 Tenn. App. 607 - Snodgrass v. Snodgrass’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2002
2 federal appellate · 12 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 · 29 Tenn. App. 291 - Garvey v. Garvey · 33 Tenn. App. 532 - Clothier v. Clothier · State ex rel. Sprague v. Bucher · Roble v. Roble
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * it [the statute, T.C.A. see. 36-803] was intended thereby to provide that where the acts complained of were committed out of the state, a two-year bona fide residence in the state, next before the filing of the bill, should be made to appear, as a condition precedent to the granting of relief.” [The period of time has now been amended to one year.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wiseman v. Wiseman“the place 'where a person has his principal home and place of enjoyment of his fortunes; which he does not expect to leave, except for a purpose; from which when absent, he seems to himself a wayfarer; to which when he returns, he ceases to travel'”
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.