Thorpe v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 1967
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hodges v. Snyder · Wabash R. Co. v. Commercial Transport, Inc. · Broady v. New York · Martin v. Ben Davis Conservancy District · WOERNER, ETC. v. City of Indianapolis
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All steps taken and all acts done in and about the incorporation of the Town of Cedar Lake in Lake County, Indiana,- are deemed sufficient to incorporate the town, and the act of the Board of Commissioners of Lake County in incorporating the Town of Cedar Lake, be and the same are hereby legalized and declared to be legal and valid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thorpe v. King
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.