Thompson v. Lea’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Norton v. Liddell (1967), Anders Bros. v. Latimer (1917)
26 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 Mazange v. Slocum · Cook v. Adams · Bostwick v. Perkins · Hodges v. Ashurst & Sons · Ives v. Finch
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The element in the jurisdiction over a case which cannot be supplied by consent, is the jurisdiction over the subject-matter; and the reason why that cannot be given by consent is, that it must be conferred by the law. It is the authority of the court, and can be derived alone from the law. Whatever pertains merely to the bringing of the case under the operation of that jurisdiction, may be waived [Authorities cited]. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The parties may, in the circuit court, waive the antecedent proceedings entirely, and submit themselves to the jurisdiction of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. Liddell
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.