Thoreson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Glover v. Texas General Indemnity Co. (1981), Texas Sling Company v. Emanuel (1968)
42 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 Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Scharrenbeck · Rankin v. Nash-Texas Co. · J. Weingarten, Inc. v. Brockman · Wichita Falls Traction Co. v. Elliott
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the fact an accident happens is no evidence that there was an unreasonable risk of such an occurrence; because almost any activity involves some risk of harm.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Q Could you tell by observing where the fire started? A It started at the truck. Q Started under the truck? A Yes.””
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.