Thode v. Thode’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Ullmann v. State (1994), Ruddock v. Burrowes (1998)
59 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Alabama v. United States · Carpenter v. Carpenter · Ridgeway v. Ridgeway · Texas v. New Jersey
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not insensitive to the apparent harshness of any decision by a court that may be perceived as punishing the client for the transgressions of his or her attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“our adversarial system [also] requires that the client be responsible for acts of the attorney-agent whom [he] has freely chosen ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“especially hesitant to find an abuse of discretion where the court has denied a motion for continuance made on the day of trial”
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.