Anderson v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Ashmore v. Greater Greenville Sewer Dist. (1947), Hutcheson v. Atherton (1940)
2 federal appellate · 70 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 Williams v. . Gallatin · City of New Orleans v. Carrollton Land Co. · Seattle Land & Improvement Co. v. City of Seattle · State Ex Rel. Schoeffner v. Dowling · Knoll v. Knoll
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An exception to the capacity of plaintiffs was taken during the trial. It is not urged in the briefs; it is not well founded and is overruled. See Stevens v. Walker, 15 La.Ann. 577 * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Said property to be controlled and used by the corporate authority of said city as a public park.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an appropriation of land to some public use made by the owner. . .”
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.