Thomas v. Beals’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Spiegel v. Beacon Participations, Inc. (1937), Woodling v. Garrett Corp. (1987)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Goldthwait v. Day · Fairbanks v. Snow · Morse v. Hill · Richards v. Todd · Freeland v. Freeland
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ There was no necessity for an offer to return the consideration before the bill was brought. A bill in equity is not like an action at law, brought on the footing of a rescission previously completed. . . . The foundation of the bill is that the rescission is not co’mplete, and it asks the aid of the court to make it so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ludington v. Patton
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.