Thompson v. Wogan’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1994
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.
Relationships
Relies on Emory v. Addis · Shugart v. Egan · Schroder v. Crawford · Hyba v. C. A. Horneman, Inc. · King v. Haley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... where an action is brought for damages for the affirmative act of an intoxicated person the courts are practically unanimous in holding it is unnecessary to show the intoxication was the proximate cause of the injury, but where the action is based on the clause `in consequence of the intoxication,' or its equivalent, it has usually been held necessary to prove the intoxication proximately caused the damage."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stewart v. Ryan
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.