60 Tenn. App. 478 - Pierce v. Bechtold’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2005
18 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 49 Tenn. App. 1 - Ex Parte Wolfenden · In re the Adoption of Norris · 58 Tenn. App. 471 - Fancher v. Mann · 48 Tenn. App. 433 - Ex Parte Wolfenden
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(5) Even taking into consideration the limitations of the divorce decree and the attitude of the mother, we do not think Mr. Mann has shown the usual and proper concern for his children a parent should. Nevertheless, after a careful study of all the proof, we cannot say the evidence here is so clear, convincing and unequivocal to show that Mr. Mann “evinces a settled purpose to forego all parental duties and relinquish all parental claims to the children).” ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Parsons
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.