Thomas v. . Connelly’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1934
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If he (the clerk) shall account for and pay over, according to law, all moneys and effects which have come or may come into his hands by virtue or color of his office, or under an order or decree of a Judge, even though such order or decree be void for want of jurisdiction or other irregularities,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Presson v. . Boone
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.