Thompson v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1971 · most notably Dawson v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co. (1921), Hanover Fire Insurance v. Harding (1926)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · Hylton v. United States · Thompson v. Kreutzer · New York ex rel. Edward & John Burke, Ltd. v. Wells · Wilby v. State
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellee, in taking crude gum from his own trees, is not directly engaged in any kind of mercantile business. He does not bring his wares into the market place nor upon stock markets.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It requires no refinement to observe at once that this is an additional burden of taxation operating, not indirectly, but directly, upon complainant’s property.””
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.