Parks v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2017
19 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 Cummings v. Beeler · West v. Carr · Jared v. Fitzgerald · Patton v. Chattanooga · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Askew
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat to maintain an action for a declaratory judgment a justiciable controversy must exist .... [Citation omitted.] For a controversy to be justiciable, a real question rather than a theoretical one must be presented and a real legally pro-tectable interest must be at stake on the part of plaintiff. [Citation omitted.] If the controversy depends upon a future or contingent event or involves a theoretical or hypothetical state of facts, the controversy is not justiciable under the Tennessee Declaratory Judgments Act. [Citations omitted.] The Declaratory Judgments Act does not give the courts jurisdiction to render advisory opinions to assist the parties or to allay their fears as to what may occur in the future.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Further, [e]ven though a statute is unconstitutional, only those who have a right to raise a question of its unconstitutionality may invoke the aid of the courts to have it judicially set aside, and the constitutionality of a legislative act is open to attack by those persons whose rights are affected thereby. Before a law can be assailed by any person on the ground that it is unconstitutional, he must show that he has an interest in the question in that the enforcement of the law would be an infringement on his rights. Assailants must therefore show the applicability of the statute to them and that they are thereby injuriously affected.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“must show that he personally has sustained or is in immediate danger of sustaining, some direct injury . . . and not merely that he suffers in some indefinite way in common with people generally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayhew v. Wilder
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.