Thomas v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1962
2 federal appellate · 8 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the mortgagor is the party alone entitled to re'over the penalty, his rights are, of course, the only ones intended to be secured by the statute; and in support of such a statute, the reasons given by Judge Dillon as above are entirely satisfactory,””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Unsatisfied mortgages o£ record tend to affect the pecuniary standing and credit o£ the mortgagor in business circles.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.