Thompson v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Hilbert v. Roth (1959), Brown v. Pittsburgh (1962)
21 federal appellate · 93 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Milks v. McIver · Mason v. C. Lewis Lavine, Inc. · Feinstone v. Allison Hospital, Inc. · Purchase v. Seelye · Seither v. Philad. Traction Co.
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor is it material whether the tort-feasors involved committed a joint tort or concurrent or successive torts, because the principle which underlies the rule is that the injured person is given a legal remedy only to obtain compensation for the damage done to him, and when that compensation has been received from any of the wrongdoers, his right to further remedy is at an end.”
1 later decision 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.