Thompson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 480 · 1880
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1992 · most notably Knewel v. Egan (1925), Van Beeck v. Sabine Towing Co. (1937)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Supervisors v. United States · Secretary v. McGarrahan · Commissioners v. Sellew · Board of Commissioners v. Aspinwall
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The cases in which it has been held by this court that an abatement takes place by the expiration of the term of office have been those of officers of the government, whose alleged delinquency was personal, and did not involve any charge against the government whose officers they were.””
2 later decisions 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.