Thompson v. McIntosh’s Empirical Analysis
100 F. 890 · 1900
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1950
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Munks v. Jackson · Jackson v. Munks
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But upon the most careful reflection I have been able to bestow upon it, the result to which I have brought my mind is that, if the district court has a right to entertain a libel of review in any case, it must be limited to very special eases, and either where no appeal by law lies, because the matter is less in value than is required by law to justify an appeal, or the proper time for appeal is passed, and the decree remains unexecuted, or where there is clear error in matter at law, or, if not, where the decree has been obtained by fraud, or where new facts, changing the entire merits, have been discovered since the decree was passed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Chisholm““It would be an intolerable rule that should disable this court from disturbing upon its own motion, or upon suggestion made to it, a decree obtained fraudulently, by means of its machinery, to effect a tortious purpose. No usual limit óf time or other technical limitation should embarrass the court in detecting an offense of that nature, • and of suitably correcting its decrees. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Hewitt““The power, however, will only be exercised by the court when no relief by appeal can be had; and the declaration of the court of last resort upon the subject imports that in this country courts of admiralty cannot, in any case, sustain such bill filed subsequent to the term in which the decision is rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Chisholm
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.