Thompson v. Buchholz’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1972
13 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 Iron Mountain Bank v. Murdock · Boeger v. Langenberg · Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad v. Kansas City, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad · De Donato v. Morrison · Wolfe v. Supreme Lodge Knights & Ladies of Honor
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A plaintiff, in this character of action, makes out his case when he shows that he was intentionally detained as a prisoner by the defendant, without any warrant therefor, and is not required to prove malice or want of probable cause. Boeger v. Langenberg, 97 Mo. 390 , 11 S. W. 223 ; McCaskey v. Garrett, 91 Mo. App. 354 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larson v. Erickson
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.