Thompson v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1964
6 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 Spicer v. Stebbins · Backstrom v. New York Life Insurance Co. · Olson v. Heise · Kelly v. Bowman
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.
“““ * * In order to render the order granting a new trial appeal-able, the order or the memorandum must expressly state that the new trial is granted exclusively for errors of law occurring at the trial, and the alleged errors of law upon which the order is based must be expressly stated therein. Spicer v. Stebbins, 184 Minn. 77 , 237 N. W. 844 ; Backstrom v. New York L. Ins. Co. 187 Minn. 35 , 244 N. W. 64 ; Olson v. Heise, 197 Minn. 441 , 267 N. W. 425 ; Kelly v. Bowman, 201 Minn. 365 , 276 N. W. 274 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Voller v. Schmitz
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.