Thompson v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2005
4 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 Houston Transit Co. v. Felder · Den Norske Ameriekalinje Actiesselskabet v. Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n · Dallas Railway & Terminal Co. v. Guthrie · Garrison v. Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n · Dallas Ry. & Terminal Co. v. Darden
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case of willful torts the wrongdoer is responsible for the direct and immediate consequences regardless of whether they might have been contemplated, foreseen, or expected. Where the act is criminal or unlawful, the wrongdoer is held liable not only for immediate and natural consequences but for all such consequential injuries as might reasonably be anticipated as the probable result of the wrongful act .” (Italics ours.)”
2 later decisions 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.