Grant v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1822
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably Anderson v. State (1922), Connecticut Mut Life Ins Co v. Lathrop (1884)
27 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before, at, and after his contract, in order to ascertain his real condition at the moment of entering into an agreement.”
2 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.