Thompson v. Selden’s Empirical Analysis
61 U.S. 194 · 1857
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1963 · most notably Hammond Packing Company v. State of Arkansas (1909), United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co. (1902)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Hodgson · United States v. Caldwell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And as regards the motion to continue tlie case, it ñas often been derided by tliis court that the refusal of an inferior court to continue a case to another term cannot be assigned for error here. Justice requires that the granting or refusal of a continuance should be left to the sound discretion of the court where the motion is made, and where all of the circumstances connected with it, and proper to be considered, can readily be brought before the court.””
2 later decisions 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.