Green County v. John Thomas's Executor’s Empirical Analysis
211 U.S. 598 · 1909
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1995
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedThomas v. Green County (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Clay v. Field · Bolles v. Outing Co. · The Maria Martin · Green County, Kentucky v. Mary Amis Quinlan, of the Last Will and Testament of Leonard Q. Quinlan, Deceased. Green County, Kentucky v. Thomas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has no interest or concern in the proper division of the amount due ... among those who are entitled to share the proceeds of the verdict.”
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.