Abney v. Abney’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 53 Tenn. App. 594 - Crouch v. Crouch · Lingner v. Lingner · 53 Tenn. App. 549 - Thomas v. Harper · 23 Tenn. App. 359 - Bradshaw v. Bradshaw · Abney v. Abney
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[James Abney’s] contempt of Court bars him from asking this Court to grant an absolute divorce to his wife.””
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.