Thompson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1956
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Peter Lee Atherton v. Mary G Atherton · John Voorhees v. James Jackson · National Exchange Bank v. Wiley
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On affidavit that a defendant is not a resident of this State ... an order of publication may be entered against such defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Thompson
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.