Thomas v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably In Re Tobacco II Cases (2009), Wolf v. Commissioner of Public Welfare (1975)
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 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 Hansberry v. Lee · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Jenkins v. United Gas Corp. · Esplin v. Hirschi
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The party opposing the class has acted or refused to act on grounds generally applicable to the class, thereby making appropriate final injunctive relief or corresponding declaratory relief with respect to’ the class as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hammond v. Powell
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.