Thomas v. Goudreault’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Reed v. Mitchell & Timbanard, P.C. (1995), Lisa v. Strom (1995)
6 district · 25 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Crisci v. Security Insurance · United California Bank v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · 54 Cal. 2d 328 - Acadia, California, Ltd. v. Herbert · Rancho Pescado, Inc. v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is ... clear from the discussions between court and counsel concerning motions for directed verdict that the [plaintiffs] sought damages in tort---- In determining whether a tort or contract claim has been pled, the court must look to the substance of the allegations, not the labels attached to them.”
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.