Thomas v. Hanmer’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2006
4 district · 9 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... As in Babcock , Canada has no contact with this case except for the “purely adventitious circumstance” that the accident occurred in Quebec.... Quebec, therefore, has no conceivable interest in denying plaintiff the right to recover for pain and suffering. Since both cars involved in the accident were insured in New York there is no risk of higher insurance premium rates for Quebec drivers. Moreover, since there is no territorial limitation ... restricting liability coverage in the standard New York insurance policy ... presumably the premiums charged by the State regulated insurance companies take into consideration the possibility that accidents will occur to New York residents travelling out of state....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.