Thompson v. Shipp’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 1982
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mannini v. McFarland · Flowers v. Logan County · Southern Operating Co. v. City of Chattanooga
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.
““The writer of the opinion did not use the words ‘cities and towns’ in their narrow sense, but was referring to the organization and government of municipalities and local governments in general.” Id., 184 S.W.2d at p. 248 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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