Thompson v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Dolan v. Rabenberg (1950), Foster v. Petree (1941)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 James Sigafus v. Dudley Porter · Hobbs v. Boatright · Hall v. Corcoran · The United States Beverly Tucker v. A G Seaman Superintendent of Public Printing · Loomis v. . People
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But where one person makes a purchase for another, or where one of two or more joint purchasers conducts a joint purchase, and falsely represents to the others that the price is greater than is actually paid for the property, the measure of damages is always the difference between the amount actually paid by the party defrauded and the true purchase price of the interest which he acquired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Teter v. Spillman
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.