Thomas v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Pledger v. Bosnick (1991), Hernandez v. Hernandez (2007)
71 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 Galiger v. McNulty · Askew v. Murdock Acceptance Corporation · Gilpin v. Burrage · Employers Ins. Co. v. Brooks · Melton v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A finding by a court in a divorce case that there was due and owing by a plaintiff to a defendant the sum of $275.00 per month for a period commencing January 1, 1947 and ending January 1, 1950, was held not to have the force and effect of an adjudication disposing of the subject matter in a manner sufficient to constitute a judgment. Taliferro v. Taliferro, 178 Cal.App.2d 146 , 2 Cal.Rptr. 719 (1960). A final judgment or decision is one that finally adjudicates the rights of the parties, putting it beyond the power of the court which made it to place the parties in their original positions. Crowe v. DeSoto Consolidated School Dist., 246 Iowa 38 , 66 N.W.2d 859 (1954). It must be such a final determination as may be enforced by execution or in some other appropriate manner. Wilson v. Corbin, 241 Iowa 226 , 40 N.W.2d 472 (1950); Crowe v. DeSoto Consolidated School Dist., supra.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The decisions, opinions, and findings of a court do not constitute a judgment or decree. They merely form the bases upon which the judgment or decree is subsequently to be rendered and are not conclusive unless incorporated in a judgment or a judgment be entered thereon. . . . They are more in the nature of the verdict of a jury and no more a judgment than such a verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Formal requirements for a judgment in Arkansas are few. It is the final determination of the right of parties in an action. The amount of the judgment must be computed, as near as may be, in dollars and cents. A judgment must specify clearly the relief granted or other determination of the action. The few basic requirements must be met and the judgment must clearly show that it is the act of the law, pronounced and declared by the court upon determination and inquiry. While a rather technical application was made of this rule in the cited case, strict formality in language used to express the adjudication of the court is not necessary and a `judgment' will be tested by its substance, not its form.”
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.