Thelin v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1995
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves, to warrant a cautious man in believing the party accused to be guilty. It is wholly immaterial whether the party was guilty or not, if the facts known to the defendant, and only known to him. were such as would warrant ‘a, cautious man’ in believing the party was guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chapman v. Nash
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.