Thompson v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000 · most notably Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1997), 303 Pa. Super. 559 - Pashak v. Barish (1982)
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedThompson v. Lawson (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · Parker v. Motor Boat Sales, Inc. · Voehl v. Indemnity Ins Co of North America · Moore Dry Dock Co. v. Pillsbury
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a conjugal nexus between the claimant and the decedent subsisting at the time of the latter's death * * *,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“by reason of his ... desertion at such time.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“assessing the marital conduct of the parties.”
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.