Thompson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1984 · most notably New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), New York Times Company v. Sullivan (1962)
26 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 Liverpool London Globe Ins. Co. v. Lowe · Kyser v. American Surety Co. · Cudd v. Wood · Clark v. Smith · Reeres & Co. v. Brown
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there was a general appearance made in this case, the lower court had jurisdiction of the person of the appellant. (Authorities cited.) “The filing of a demurrer, unless based solely on the ground of lack of jurisdiction of the person, constitutes a general appearance.””
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.