Toms v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1995
12 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 Hays v. Madison County · Oglesby v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Kitchen Lumber Company v. Moses
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * effect must be given to that which is unavoidably and necessarily implied in a judgment, as well as that which is expressed in the most appropriate language.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Furlow v. Sturgeon
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.