Thomas v. Marion County’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2020
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 Engstrom v. State · Fuller v. Local Union No. 106 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners · Kelly v. Iowa Mutual Insurance Co. · Children v. Burton · Kraft v. City of Bettendorf
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has two elements: (1) detention or restraint against one's will, and (2) unlawfulness of the detention or restraint.”
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.