Thomson v. Locke’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Brown v. Gulf Television Co. (1957), Stewart v. Miller (1925)
3 federal appellate · 113 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.
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Suits for recovery of lands or damages thereto, or to remove incumbrances upon the title to land, or to quiet the title to land, or to prevent or stay waste on lands, must be brought in the county in which the land, or a part thereof, may lie.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norvell v. Stovall““ * * * to be null and void because the field notes and the certificates under and by virtue of which they were made were returned to the General Land Office of Texas after they were barred by the statute of limitations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.