Anthes v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2011
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Ferguson v. Green · Howell v. Worth James Construction Co. · Carolus v. Arkansas Light & Power Co. · Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance v. United States · Freer v. J. G. Putman Funeral, Home, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he presumption is that parties contract only for themselves and a contract will not be construed as having been made for the benefit of a third party unless it clearly appears that such was the intention of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Arkansas work[s] on the theory that `where a contract clearly intends a benefit to the third party, privity is not required, and the third party acquires an enforceable right.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.