Thomas v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2020
16 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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Rathbone v. . Wirth · State Ex Rel. Caldwell v. Hooker, County Judge · Kansas City v. Marsh Oil Co. · Lackey v. State Ex Rel. Grant
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every municipal corporation within this state shall have the right to engage in any ■business or enterprise which may be engaged in by a person, firm, or corporation, by virtue of a franchise from said corporation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Protest of Reid
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.