Thompson v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Saigh v. Monteith, C.J. (1948), Ammex Warehouse Company v. Archer (1964)
50 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hence their appeal (i. e. the appeal of certain parties) may involve as incidental to the relief to which they are entitled a readjustment of other lines than the western boundary,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any judgment which may be proper to any relief against that judgment to which the appellants may show themselves to be entitled.”
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.