Thuma v. Kroschel’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2010
10 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 Flast v. Cohen · Ashcroft v. Mattis · Offerdahl v. University of Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics · Hubbard v. United Press International, Inc. · Reserve Mining Co. v. Herbst
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Respondent, however, did not seek to void the well-drilling contract or to restrain the unlawful use of city money. * * * The relief respondent requested was solely limited to a judicial declaration that [the may- or] acted ultra vires * * *. Absent “the existence of a genuine conflict in the tangible interests of the opposing litigants,” * * * the trial court did not have jurisdiction to consider the merits * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rupp v. Mayasich
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.