Thompson v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Baugus v. Wessinger (1991), Deidun v. Deidun (2004)
26 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 Ledford v. Pennsylvania Life Insurance · Mitchell Supply Co. v. Gaffney · Graham v. Town of Loris · Goodson v. AMER. BANKERS INS. CO. OF FLA. · McInerny v. Toler
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] meritorious defense need not be perfect nor one which can be guaranteed to prevail at a trial. It need be only one which is worthy of a hearing or judicial inquiry because it raises a question of law deserving of some investigation and discussion or a real controversy as to real facts arising from conflicting or doubtful evidence.”
3 later decisions 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.