Epps v. Washington County’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1991
8 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The records of the court are held to be the sole witness of the proceedings to employ counsel and authorize a charge against the county to pay him compensation.” Epps v. Washington County, 173 Tenn. 373, 376 , 117 S.W.2d 749, 750 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.