Thompson v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1956
9 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 Edward v. Ioor · Joslin v. Noret · People v. Rice · People v. Wright · People v. Barnes
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are persuaded that these instructions incorrectly limited the liability of the defendant for participating, if he did participate, in a sale of stock in the face of and in violation of a penal statute. The action is not one for fraud but is based on the theory that the same is in violation of a penal statute and therefore void. A violation of the statute is made a misdemeanor (3 Comp. Laws 1915, § 11967). All aiding and assisting in the commission of a misdemeanor are principals. People v. Rice, 103 Mich. 350 ; People v. Barnes, 113 Mich. 213 ; People v. Wright, 90 Mich. 362 ; 16 C. J. p. 120. Hence if the defendant actively aided and assisted the agents Raymond and Thompson in making the sale, he violated the blue sky law whether he profited by the sale or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Noll v. Woods
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.