Thomas v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1947
4 federal appellate · 15 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 Ketchum v. Duncan · Gould v. City of St. Paul · McCollum v. Uhl · City of Ballard v. Ross · White v. Thomas
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘•‘The third question involved is: Has any coupon holder the right to have the funds in the hands of the treasurer applied in the payment of his coupons in preference to others of the same issue due at the same time, when there is insufficient to pay all, because the • one holder may present his for payment before another, or perchance may be first in line, or be recognized first, arbitrarily or otherwise, by the' county treasurer? The statute does not require that coupons shall be paid in the order of their presentation for payment; but, to the contrary, it in substance provides that the funds realized from the collection of taxes levied to pay interest maturing on any issue of bonds in a specified year is for the benefit of all holders of interest coupons which can be legally paid out of such funds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maloney v. Moore“‘ ‘ The only logical conclusion supported by. the weight of authority, is, that when the coupons are presented for payment and there are not sufficient funds in the hands of the treasurer which can be applied to the payment of all the coupons of the bond issue from which they were taken to pay them in full, that such proportion of such funds may be applied on the coupons presented as are payable out of the funds in the hands of the treasurer in the ratio they bear to the sum total of the coupons to which such funds must he applied. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.