Freeman v. . Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Hayes v. City of Wilmington (1956), Greene v. Charlotte Chemical Laboratories, Inc. (1961)
52 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.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny party aggrieved may appeal in the cases prescribed in this Chapter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“and in the event the judgment was obtained in an action arising out of a joint tort, and only one, or not all of the joint tort-feasors, were made parties defendant, those tort-feasors made parties defendant, and against whom judgment was obtained, may, in an action therefor, enforce contribution from the other joint tort-feasors; or at any time before judgment is obtained, the joint tort-feasors made parties defendant may, upon motion, have the other joint tort-feasors made parties defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. . Massagee
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.