Thompson v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 1975 · most notably Hackett v. Cash (1916), Andrews v. Grey (1917)
47 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 Woodrow v. Hawving · Simpson v. Golden · Pearce v. Walker · Knight v. Clements · Bailey v. Butler
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the trial court had facts and circumstances before it not available to us; the evidence being in part ore tenus. He saw and heard some of the witnesses, and could observe their demeanor upon the stand, and his fconclusion upon the facts will not be disturbed, unless it is plainly erroneous.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. Blackshear
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.