Thompson v. Connell’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1976 · most notably Nelson v. Meehan (1907), Carmichael v. Carmichael (1921)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 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 Bailey v. Taaffe · Craig v. Smith · White v. Northwest Stage Co. · Askren v. Squire · McIntosh v. Comm'rs of Crawford County
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So that, in either view, whether the acts complained of are such as may be denominated by one of the statutory appellations, or from their general nature and effect fall within the mischief sought to be relieved against, it is apparent that the statute is broad enough to afford ample relief by motion in the action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. Meehan““The court may * .* in its discretion, and upon such terms as may be just, at any time within one year after notice thereof, relieve a party from a judgment, order, or other proceeding taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.” Section 103, B. & C. Comp.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. Huntley
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.