Thomas v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1958
17 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 Crowe v. O'Rourke
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The chief objection urged to this instruction, and the only one not disposed of by what has already been said, seems to be based upon the words, `remained thereon,' so that thereby the duty and burden was placed upon the appellants of excusing or justifying not only the entry of their car upon the wrong side of the highway, but also that it remained there until the collision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lauber v. Lyon“Appellants assign error upon the giving of the following instruction:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lauber v. Lyon
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.