Thorwegan v. King’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 549 · 1884
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1998
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury are instructed that unless the evidence clearly shows that defendant, with intent to defraud the plaintiff, falsely represented to him some material facts alleged in the petition and relied on by the plaintiff, whereby plaintiff' to his damage was induced to enter into the contract, then they must And for the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The proposition contained in the request is a correct statement of the law and strictly applicable to the case.””
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.