Thompson v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1982
5 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 Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · V Guy a Thompson Trustee New Orleans Texas & Mexico Railway Company · Thompson v. Gibson · Thompson v. Gibson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We hold that the proofs justified with reason the jury’s conclusion that employer negligence played a part in producing the petitioner’s injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.