Thomas v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Wilson v. Commercial Finance Co. (1954), Nationwide Insurance v. Storm (1959)
5 federal appellate · 11 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 Foster v. Beall · Ohio Farmers' Insurance Co. v. Todino · London Bros. v. National Exchange Bank · Stein v. Scarpa
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a conceded fact that no assignment of title to and notice of transfer of any automobile had been executed on the form prescribed by the motor vehicle commissioner as provided by statute and delivered by defendant to the plaintiff prior to the fire.””
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.