Thompson v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.2d 372 · 1940
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1988
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co. · Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co. · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Dixon · American Automobile Ins. v. Freundt
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the law of Arkansas it was the privilege of Mrs. Moore, the injured party, to say whether her controversy was with one or both of the joint tort-feasors whose concurrent negligence she claimed caused her injury. * * * One of two joint tort-feasors has no right to say that an action is several which the injured party claims is joint.””
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.