53 Tenn. App. 403 - Bevins v. Bevins’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1992
22 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 Sherman County v. Ross · Smith v. Smith · In re Knott · Holloway v. Bradley · Stubblefield v. State Ex Rel. Fjelstad
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.
“The real matter to be considered is what is the best thing to do with these children that they may be left in a home where they are nurtured, loved, appreciated and where the environment is such that is conducive not only to the physical welfare of the child, but to its emotional and moral welfare, and where it can have the instructions from those who have control over it to inspire it to activities so as to develop a personality prepared for a life of service, and to successfully compete in the society which the child faces when an adult.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. Stone · Bah v. Bah“All our cases recognize that the welfare of the child is the paramount consideration, and that ordinarily a child’s welfare will be better fostered with its parents than with other persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lentz v. Lentz
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.