Thornton v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1976
4 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 Peck v. Mayo, Follett & Co. · Hackley v. Draper · Maner v. Wilson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the established rules in respect to the doctrine of comity is that when the lex loci contractus and the lex fori as to conflicting rights acquired in each come in direct collision the comity of nations must yield to the positive law of the land, 2 Kent, 461.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.