Thomas v. Hardisty’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Travelers Indemnity Company v. Nationwide Construction Corporation (1966), Bringe v. Collins (1975)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Ballard v. Hunter · Staley v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Brashears v. Collison · Spencer v. Franks
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that a proceeding in rem (or quasi in rem) should describe the res with sufficient accuracy so that the description given in a notice of publication would be sufficient to identify the property involved with at least reasonable certainty. * * * “In the instant case, the description is not merely brief, but clearly erroneous in describing the property as being located in one election district when it is actually located in another.” 7”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““This Court has also upheld tax foreclosure proceedings against attacks based upon the use of an old or erroneous address of the taxpayers, whose rights of redemption were being foreclosed, in cases where a correct address might have been ascertained and used, either easily or without great effort. James v. Zantzinger, supra; Sanchez v. James, 209 Md. 266 , 120 A. 2d 836 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t would seem to be an unnecessary refinement to make a distinction between an application to reopen a decree because of lack of jurisdiction to enter it and a collateral attack intended to show that the decree is a nullity for precisely that same reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillow v. Magraw
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.