Thomson v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably General Mills Restaurants, Inc. v. Texas Wings, Inc. (2000), Johnson v. Sawyer (1995)
8 federal appellate · 20 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 Thigpen v. Locke · Malooly Brothers, Inc. v. Napier · Consolidated Gas & Equipment Co. of America v. Thompson · Texas Employers Insurance Ass'n v. Wermske · Gracey v. West
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a confidential relationship may be shown outside the usual case of a partnership, attorney-and-client, or family relationship, the evidence must show that dealings between the parties have continued for such a period of time that one party is justified in relying on the other to act in his best interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Sawyer“Most contracting parties have some degree of trust and confidence in each other, or they would not make a deal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.