Thomas v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably BROWN v. Commonwealth (1973), Biello v. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (1973)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Rader v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission · Anderson Appeal · Johnson v. EI duPONT deNEMOURS & COMPANY · Roney v. General State Authority · Adam Eidemiller, Inc. v. State Highway & Bridge Authority
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Moreover, Rader has been cited with approval by our Court several times, and its rationale applied to other factual situations. Por example, we granted sovereign immunity to the General State Authority (Roney v. General State Authority, 413 Pa. 218 , 219, 196 A.2d 349 ) ; to the Delaware River Port Authority (Anderson Appeal, 408 Pa. 179 , 187, 182 A.2d 514 ) ; and to the State Highway and Bridge Authority (Eidemiller, Inc. v. State Highway and Bridge Authority, 408 Pa. 195 , 182 A.2d 911 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission [is] an instrumentality of the Commonwealth engaged in a governmental function and therefore is not liable for . . . injuries and damages in a trespass action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“firmly established as the law of Pennsylvania.”
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.