Mawyer v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Philip Morris, Inc. v. Emerson (1988), Harrison v. Commonwealth (1992)
28 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 Orr v. Avon Florida Citrus Corp. · Smith v. Tatum · Morien v. Norfolk & Atlantic Terminal Co. · Winn v. Taylor · Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad v. Freeman
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an easy way of avoiding instead of deciding the issue made by the evidence in the case.”
2 later decisions 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.