Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1970
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... so far as the question of the marital relation was concerned, that question was forever concluded by the death of the [husband], and no one had any longer any interest in reviving it. But the decree which granted the divorce, at the same time determined the property rights of the [wife], and if unreversed, deprived her of all rights in her late husband’s property. With respect to that question her interest survived”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goldman v. Walker
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.