56 Tenn. App. 13 - Thomas v. Hamlin’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Mitchell v. Smith (1989), Parham v. Walker (1978)
30 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 30 Tenn. App. 628 - Cude v. Culberson · Hammond v. Union Planters Nat. Bank · 41 Tenn. App. 1 - Jones v. Sands · 5 Smith & H. 479 - Winters v. American Trust Co. · 47 Tenn. App. 223 - Kelley v. Brading
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conservatorship does not adjudicate or find a person insane or non compos men-tis. Its purpose is to provide a means of conserving the estate of persons unable to look after their own property. Such a person is not per se, that is, in and of itself, or because of the conservatorship alone, incapable of making a valid will.”
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.