Thompson v. . Newlin’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 1854
most recently cited
1 state decisions
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for it does not belong to them to enforce it, nor (79) does the breach of it work an injury to them, but only to the negroes or the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurdle v. . Outlaw
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.