Thomas v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1984
5 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 Trimming v. Howard · Independ. S. Dists., Etc. v. Common S. Dist. 1 · 63 Okla. Crim. 395 - Ex Parte Williams · Hillock v. Idaho Title & Trust Co. · 108 Cal. App. 759 - Taback v. Greenberg
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court early committed itself and has adhered to the doctrine that the substance, not the form of the action, controls and determines the applicable statute of limitations.” Thomas v. Gordon, 68 Idaho 254, 256 , 192 P.2d 856, 857 (1948) ; citing Hillock v. Idaho Title & Trust Co., 22 Idaho 440 , 126 P. 612 (1912).”
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.