Thanos v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Bornstein v. State Tax Commission (1962), 133 Md. App. 1 - Das v. Das (2000)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 Jackson v. State · Cumberland & Westernport Transit Co. v. Metz · Plank v. Summers · Cornwell v. Cornwell · Harris v. State
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.
“[I]n some exceptional situations, refusal to grant a continuance has been held to be reversible error. In the instant case we think the appellants were virtually denied their day in court under the mandate. The transcript of the former trial could not supply the evidence as to the precise nature and extent of the treatment. To try the case without this basic evidence was like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. We think the ruling was prejudicial and amounted to an abuse of discretion under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The facts and opinions of the doctors, as expressed in their affidavits, left no doubt that it would be impossible for the plaintiff to be in court to present her case. It appeared that [appellant] would be available within a reasonable time (a different situation would be presented if her illness were permanent or the prognosis was for a lengthy disability).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that he had a reasonable expectation of securing the evidence of the absent witness or witnesses within some reasonable time; (2) that the evidence was competent and material, and he believed that the ease could not be fairly tried without it; and (3) that he had made diligent and proper efforts to secure the evidence.”
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.