Tidwell v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Lee Medical, Inc. v. Paula Beecher (2010), Owen of Georgia, Inc. v. Shelby County (1981)
4 federal appellate · 69 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 State v. Yoakum · Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. City of Chattanooga · Shelby County v. Hale · 23 Tenn. App. 374 - Burns v. Duncan · Flowers v. Aetna Casualty & Surety 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of the Court to reconcile inconsistent or repugnant provisions; to place a construction thereon which will not be prejudicial to the public interest; to construe a statute so that no part will be inoperative, superfluous, void or insignificant, and the one section will not destroy another; and further to give effect to every word, phrase, clause and sentence of the act in order to carry out the legislative intent.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The premier rule of statutory construction is to ascertain and give effect to the legislative intent. Lawrence v. Lawrence, 35 Tenn.App. 648 , 250 S.W.2d 781 (1952). In doing this we look to the general purpose to be accomplished. State v. Yoakum, 201 Tenn. 180 , 297 S.W.2d 635 (1956).”
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.