Thompson v. Emmert’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1978
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 Baker v. Baker, Eccles & Co. · Saunders v. City of Flemingsburg · Penny v. McRoberts · Matney v. Elswick · Elam v. Maggard
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.
“absence depends upon the completion of some temporary task, or upon the discharge of some duty of a temporary nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Tiller
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.