Thomas v. Croft’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2023
6 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 Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Hall v. Cole · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · Guin v. Ha
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“public interest plaintiff’ and ordering him to pay $100 in attorney’s fees. Because of our holding on the merits of this appeal, the state no longer is entitled to fees as the prevailing party. Thus, the fee award ceases to be an issue. However, we note that it is an abuse of discretion to award attorney's fees where a losing party”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Falke v. State
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.