Thomas v. . Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1993
11 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Officers of a corporation, legally in office, are expected to carry on the business of the corporation. * * * The pillars of the business are not to be pulled down while the dispute is raging.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marron v. Wood
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.