Thomas v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1976 · most notably Hector v. Mann (1910), Burmister v. City of Prescott (1931)
25 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 Burden v. Taylor · Wauchope v. McCormick
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The right of appeal is given by statute, and, unless the person who feels aggrieved by the action of the trial court is given the right of appeal by the statute, he has no such right. ’ ’”
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.