Turbett v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1978 · most notably Faught Ex Rel. Faught v. Washam (1959), Fisher v. Gunn (1954)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Smithers v. Barker · Knight Ex Rel. Knight v. Richey · Stith v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Elkin v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Womack v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, a plaintiff may destroy a case of apparent obliviousness by testifying that he was not actually oblivious.”
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.