8 Smith & H. 88 - Wade v. Madding’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2010
10 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.
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Relies on Sutton's v. Barr's Administrator
Most-quoted passages
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““Specific provisions relating to a particular subject must govern in respect to that subject, as against general provisions in other parts of the law which otherwise might be broad enough to include it. ’ Lewis ’ Sutherland Statutory Construction (2d Ed.) sec. 491.” Wade v. Madding, 161 Tenn. 88, 109 , 28 S.W.2d 642, 649 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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