Thompson v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 233 · 1860
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1953 · most notably Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States (1897), Southern Pac Co v. United States
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 Hopkins v. Lee · Jennet Smith Calvin Powe and Thomas Powe v. Joseph Kernochen · President of the Bank of the United States v. Beverly · Beall v. Pearre
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The parties to the suit at law having been parties to the suit in equity, the subject-matter and the defence being the same, it is not a'sufficient objection to the introduction of the record in the equity suit that other persons were parties to the latter. “ No good reason can be given why the parties to the suit at law who litigated the same question should not be concluded by the decree because others, having an interest in the question or subject-matter, were admitted by the -practice of a court of chancery to assist on both sides.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Bogue
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.