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Thompson v. Cragg’s Empirical Analysis

1859

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
5
states following
August 1980
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1980

2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

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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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Color of title differs from title only, in externals. The substance of both is the same. Were this not so, if color of title were something intrinsically and substantially less, or weaker than title, then the wisdom of the Legislature could not be vindicated, in applying the same period of limitation to a possession supported by the one, as is applied to a possession supported by the other. The shortest period of limitation of which the defendants could avail themselves in support of the title exhibited in evidence is five years.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Spikes-Nash Co. v. Manning · Humphrey v. C. G. Jung Educational Center
  2. ““Every female under the age of twenty* one years who shall marry in accordance with the laws of this State, shall, from and after the time of such marriage, be deemed to be of full age and shall have all the rights and privileges to which she would have been entitled had she been at the time of her marriage of full age.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Spears v. Houston Fire & Casualty Ins. Co.
  3. “there is a complete hiatus in the chain.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Humphrey v. C. G. Jung Educational Center

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.