Thomason v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Leonards v. E.A. Martin MacHinery Co. (1995), Bailey v. Martin (1951)
27 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 Goodrum v. Ayers · Wallace v. Hill · Nix v. Pfeifer · Chavis v. Henry · Little v. Williams
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The answer of the defendants was not only a denial of the complaint but also prayed, inter alia, ‘that the title of the defendants be quieted and confirmed.’ Appellants (defendants) now claim that the complaint was an action in ejectment and should not have been tried in the equity court. In Goodrum v. Ayers, 56 Ark. 93 , 19 S. W. 97 , we said: “Conceding that the plaintiff was not in possession of the land, and for that reason could not maintain a suit to quiet title, it cannot avail the appellant; for he filed a cross-bill seeking to quiet his own title, and it gave the court jurisdiction of the entire controversy.’ To the same effect, see Weaver v. Gilbert, 214 Ark. 800 , 218 S. W. 2d 353 . So, whatever of equity jurisdiction might have been lacking in the plaintiffs’ complaint was fully supplied by defendants’ prayer for relief.””
2 later decisions 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.