Thirsk v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1959 · most notably American Car & Foundry Co. v. Alexandria Water Co. (1906), McVey v. Kaufmann (1909)
32 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 Knelly v. Horwath · McCormick v. Lawton
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section fifty-one of said act (Act of June 4, 1901, P. L. 431) expressly authorizes amendments in very general terms, and provides, inter alia, ‘Such amendment shall be of right, saving intervening rights; except that no amendment of the claim shall be allowed, after the time for its filing has expired, which undertakes to substitute an entirely different property from that originally described in the claim, or a wholly different party as the defendant with whom the claimant contracted.’ . . . There is no limitation as to the time of making amendments, and the reasonable presumption is the act intended that proper amendments can be made at any time during the existence of the lien or course of the trial.””
1 later decision 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.