Thummel v. Holden’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1952
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Flint v. Hutchinson Smoke Burner Co. · Field v. Stagg · Farmers' Bank v. Worthington · Otis v. Browning · Burnside v. Wayman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a deed is executed and delivered in blank with the parol authority to fill the blank with the name of the grantee, the grantee whose name is afterward inserted takes a good title and this is true though the blank be filled in the absence of the grantor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.