Thier v. Widdifield’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1946
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 State ex rel. Peoples Coal & Ice Co. v. District Court · Ginsberg v. Burroughs Adding Machine Co. · Hoenig v. Industrial Commission · Wiggins v. Industrial Accident Board · Klawinski v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He selected his own position, and had not been asked or directed to stand in that place by Widdifield”
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.