Holley v. Marks’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2010
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Redman v. Evans · 38 Tenn. App. 1 - Black v. Pettigrew · Jones v. Jones · Morrow v. Person · Downing v. Johnson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Testamentary gifts for the use of a life tenant “as he sees fit” have been con strued as conveying a life estate with power to dispose of the corpus at least to the extent necessary to provide support and maintenance to the donee. Redman v. Evans, 184 Tenn. 404 , 199 S.W.2d 115 (1947); Jones v. Jones, 225 Tenn. 12 , 462 S.W.2d 872 (1971). But the donee does not have the right to make a gift of the property. Black v. Pettigrew, 38 Tenn. App. 1 , 270 S.W.2d 196 (1953).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... But the complainant who cannot demonstrate to the court’s satisfaction that there is real danger of destruction of the estate is entitled to no relief. Downing v. Johnson, 45 Tenn. 229 (1867). In this record there is neither allegation nor proof that the defendant is dealing with the property in any manner not authorized by the will. Hence, no showing is made to justify the relief sought.... ( 535 S.W.2d at 862 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Priest v. Priest
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.