Thompson v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1971
12 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 Ivy v. Hood · Michie v. Bradshaw · Doe ex dem. McPherson v. Walters · Earnest v. Fite · Ala. Gt. Southern R. R. v. South & North Ala. R. R.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is alleged in effect that in 1945 and 1946 Hugh F. Thompson stood by and saw John C. Page erect valuable improvements on the lot sued for and by silence acquiesced in the making of valuable improvements on the lot by John C. Page, knowing all the time that John C. Page was acting under the assumption that he himself had title and that appellant had no interest in the parcel of land sued for. If true, this situation works an estoppel against Hugh F. Thompson. Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. South & North Ala. R. Co., 84 Ala. 570 , 3 So. 286 ; South & N. Ala. R. Co. v. Alabama G. S. R. R. Co., 147 Ala. 702 , 41 So. 307 ; Hendrix v. Southern Railway Co., 130 Ala. 205 , 30 So. 596 , 89 Am.St.Rep. 27 ; Ivy v. Hood, 202 Ala. 121 , 79 So. 587 ; Earnest v. Fite, supra. ‘Every additional brick added to the structure was an argument against the defendant’s silence [and each stroke of the carpenter’s hammer] a voice commanding him to speak.’ Forney v. Calhoun County, 86 Ala. 463 , 5 So. 750 , 752.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Fletcher
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.