Ingram v. Thames’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1958
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Board of Improvement District No. 5 v. Offenhauser · Boles v. Kelley · Board of Improvement of Sewer Improvement District No. 1 v. Pollard · Webster v. Ferguson · Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Waterworks Improvement District No. 1
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Publication of ordinance — test proceedings. — Within thirty days after the passage of the ordinance mentioned above, the recorder or city clerk shall publish a copy of it in some newspaper published in such town or city for one time. And all persons who shall faü to begin legal proceedings within thirty days after such publication for the purpose of correcting or invalidating such assessment shall be forever barred and precluded.””
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.