Douglas v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2010
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 Scanlon v. Kansas City · Turner v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad · White v. Sievers · Bindley v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Iron Mountain Bank v. Armstrong
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]rial courts may make rules governing the administration of judicial business if the rules are not inconsistent with the rules of this Court, the Constitution or statutory law in force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Thus there may be cases in which it is essential to appeal from such a judgment to prevent loss of rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“have an important purpose to facilitate investigations and the use of the discovery procedure....”
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.