59 Tenn. App. 613 - Hester v. Hester’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Stancill v. Stancill (1980), Broyles v. Broyles (1985)
28 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 Kenner v. Kenner · Davenport v. Davenport · Zirkle v. Zirkle · 158 Pa. Super. 579 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Firestone v. Firestone · 44 Tenn. App. 312 - Burden v. Burden
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.
““(8) Under the public policy of Tennessee the accumulated amount due under foreign alimony decrees will be enforced in Tennessee to the same extent as the decrees of Tennessee Courts, even to the extent of holding the respondent in contempt for failure to pay the entire sum. Thones v. Thones, 185 Tenn. 124 , 203 S.W.2d 597 . All that was said in the exhaustive opinion in that case favors the right of Mrs. Hester to maintain the present action.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Schmidt v. Schmidt · Smith v. Smith“Upon first consideration we were inclined to hold that by instituting and receiving the benefit of the reciprocal support judgment, plaintiff had impliedly consented to a reduction in child support from $600.00 per month to $450.00 per month. T.C.A. 36-926, however, expressly provides that a judgment for support under the Reciprocal Enforcement statute shall not supercede “any previous order of support or separate maintenance action.” The terms of the statute being directly applicable must be given effect. Id., at 621 , 443 S.W.2d at 32 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nissen v. Miller“Our cases hold without exception that in cases like the present where the moth er having legal custody resides with the children in another state the courts of that state have jurisdiction to determine custody, [citations omitted] Visitation rights are interwoven with the right of custody and, generally, should be left under the control of the court having jurisdiction to control custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cuccia v. Cuccia
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.