Thomas v. Colonial Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2010
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 Rice Hope Plantation v. South Carolina Public Service Authority · State v. Langford · Bushardt v. United Investment Co. · Westbrook v. Hutchison · DePASS v. PIEDMONT INTERSTATE FAIR ASS’N
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In false imprisonment, the essence of the tort consists in depriving the plaintiff of his liberty without lawful justification. If the restraint or imprisonment complained of is under lawful process, the action fails.””
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.