Thompson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 1965 · most notably Bernhard v. Bernhard (1965), Evans v. Evans (1917)
34 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbe word ‘entitled,’ the statute employs, when used as definitive or descriptive of the right to an interest in property, signifies ‘to give title, right, and claim; 9 99”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Felter v. McClure
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.