Thayer v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2002
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. United States · 23 Cal. 2d 840 - Valencia v. Shell Oil Co. · Loew's, Inc. v. William Goldman Theatres, Inc. · McClelland v. Climax Hosiery Mills · William Goldman Theatres, Inc. v. Loew's, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the offended party has succeeded in reducing the damages suffered, his claim must be reduced accordingly”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.