Thomas v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2024
7 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 Kelly v. Medical Life Insurance · Sullivan v. Quist · Boumont v. Boumont · Henry S. Grinde Corporation v. Klindworth · Nunn v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the language used in a judgment is ambiguous there is room for construction, but if the language employed is plain and unambiguous there is no room for construction or interpretation, and the effect thereof must be declared in the light of the literal meaning of the language used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holbach v. Holbach
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.