Town of Thompson in the County of Sullivan v. Perrine’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 589 · 1882
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1937 · most notably Louis Loeb v. Trustees of Columbia Township (1900), Albert Waite v. City of Santa Cruz (1902)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · The Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company v. Henry Debolt Treasurer of Hamilton County · Taylor v. Ypsilanti · Thomson v. Lee County · President of the Bank of Kentucky v. Wister
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A note payable to bearer is often said to be assignable by delivery, but in correct language there is no assignment in the case. It passes by mere delivery, and the holder never takes any title by or through any assignment, but claims merely as bearer. The note is an original promise by the maker to pay any person who shall become the bearer. It is therefore payable to any person who successively holds the note bona fide; not by virtue of any assignment of the promise, but by an original and direct promise moving from the maker to the bearer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Shapera“have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if- no. assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Ormsby
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.