Thomas v. Sully County’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Baddou v. Hall (2008), Johnson v. Armfield (2003)
26 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 Martinmaas v. Engelmann · Veeder v. Kennedy · Allen v. McLain · First American Bank West v. Berdahl · Bland v. Davison County
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a general verdict is handed down and the jury could have decided the case on two theories, one proper and one improper, the reviewing court will assume that it was decided on the proper theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Only if there is 'an affirmative showing in the record to the contrary,' will we abandon this assumption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“provided a full and correct statement of the law.”
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.