Thomas v. . Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1959 · most notably Wilcox v. Consolidated Gas Co. (1909), Lynch v. Union Institution for Savings (1893)
2 federal appellate · 35 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.
Relationships
Relies on Ford v. . Knapp · Miner v. . Beekman · Peck v. . Sherwood · Mickles v. . Dillaye and Others · Cairns v. Chabert
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also the general rule that municipal assessments for permanent improvements upon land are apportionahle between the life tenant and the remainder-men, according to the circumstances of the case and their respective interests in the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. Stevens
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.