Thompson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1984
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Ackerman v. Huff · Yoe & Harris v. Montgomery · Houston v. Blythe · American Legion of Honor v. Rowell · Laura M. v. Carlisle
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Smith had no right to discharge him or prevent the completion of those services without fault on Thompson’s part. He had rendered services to Smith on the faith of a contract. It was not intended by either party that those services should be gratuitous. The law implies a promise on Smith’s part to pay to Thompson the reasonable value of services already rendered by him when Smith discharged him and prevented him from further services under the written contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Kelly
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.