Thomas v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2022
1 district · 13 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 Martinez v. State · Burlington Industries v. Exxon Corp. · Thomas Organ Co. v. Jadranska Slobodna Plovidba · Barber v. State Highway Commission · 23 Wis. 2d 152 - Jacobi v. Podevels
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny effort at discovery would be said to have a possible impeachment purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]arties may obtain discovery regarding any matter, not privileged,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.