Thompson v. Carley’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.2d 656 · 1944
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 1985 · most notably Builders Steel Co. v. Commissioner (1950), Buder v. Becker (1950)
29 federal appellate · 1 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 Donnelly Garment Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Hedrick v. Perry · Johnson v. Umsted · Missouri Pac. Rd. Co. v. Ross, Admr. · Kauk v. Anderson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reverse a trial court in a nonjury case for having admitted incompetent evidence, whether objected to or not, unless all of the competent evidence is insufficient to support the judgment appealed from or unless it affirmatively appears from the record that the incompetent evidence complained of was relied upon by the trial court and induced the court to make an essential finding which would not otherwise have been made.”
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.