Thomas v. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1980
7 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 Stewart v. Ramsay · Netograph Manufacturing Co. v. . Scrugham · Wells v. Shriver · Matthews v. . Tufts · Phipps v. Cleveland Refining Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It appears to be the general rule that nonresident suitors and witnesses in attending upon a trial in a foreign jurisdiction are for a reasonable time immune from a service of process upon them in the county in which they are attending court in good faith. The rule is founded upon the necessity of judicial administration or upon the question of public policy. * * * citing * * * cases"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bingham v. Bingham
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.