Bunch v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1970
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Parol evidence is admissible to apply, but not to explain the terms of a written instrument. Snodgrass v. Ward, 3 Hay. [4 Tenn.] 40. The state of facts may, therefore, be proved under which a will was made, the situation of the testator’s property, the members of his family, and such other facts as will enable the court to place itself as near as possible in the situation of the person whose language is to be interpreted. Gannaway v. Tarpley, 1 Col. [41 Tenn.]572. For this purpose the testimony showing the number of the testator’s children and grandchildren at the date of executing the will, and at his death, and their condition in life, was competent, and the chancellor erred in excluding it. * * *” 71 Tenn., p. 547 (pp. 440, 441)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Lanier
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.