Thomsen v. Sir Charles W. Cayser’s Empirical Analysis
243 U.S. 66 · 1914
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 272 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. (1958), Continental Ore Company v. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation (1962)
119 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnion Castle Mail S. S. Co. v. Thomsen (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Nash v. United States · Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States
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 272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiffs did not consent to a judgment against them, but only that, if there was to be such a judgment, it should be final in form instead of interlocutory, so that they might come to this court without further delay.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But the cited cases did not overrule prior cases. Indeed, they declare that prior cases, aside from certain expressions in two of them, or asserted implications from them, were examples of the rule and show its thorough adequacy to prevent evasions of the policy of the law ‘by resort to any disguise or subterfuge of form,’ or the escape of its prohibitions ‘by any indirection.’ And we have since declared that it cannot ‘be evaded by good motives,’ the law being ‘its own measure of right and wrong, of what it permits, or forbids, and the judgment of the courts cannot be set up against it in a supposed accommodation of its policy with the good intention of the parties, and it may be of some good results.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““But the cited cases did not overrule prior cases. Indeed, they declare that prior cases, aside from certain expressions in two of them or asserted implications from them, were examples of the rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.