Thompson v. Sanborn’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2003
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Scheuer v. Rhodes · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs
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.
“fix the amount of and receive bail in the same manner as the court might do except in cases provided for by RSA 587:4.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briand v. Morin
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.