Thomas v. Joslin’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1952 · most notably Rowell v. Smith (1905), Johnson-Brinkman Commission Co. v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. (1895)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Thompson v. Myrick · Washburn v. Great Western Insurance · Steinbach v. . Relief Fire Ins. Co. · Boom v. St. Paul Foundry & Manufacturing Co. · Thomas v. Joslin
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The written contract was imperfect, but the plaintiff chose to rest a suit upon it as it was, and the judgment in the case, until set aside, was mutually binding upon the parties to it, and final as respects the merits of plaintiff’s claim, notwithstanding mistakes and omissions in the proceedings, or the failure on the part of either party to make a full presentation of his case by the proper allegations and proofs.””
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.