Thomson v. Lee County’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 327 · 1865
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1955 · most notably Board of Sup'rs of Grenada Co v. Brown (1884), Anderson v. Township of Santa Anna in De Witt Illinois (1886)
8 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 McMillen v. County Judge of Lee County
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless restrained by the organic law, has the right to authorize a municipal corporation to take stock in- a railroad or other work of internal improvement, to borrow money to pay for it, and to levy a tax to repay the loan”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Perrine“can be conferred in such a manner that the objects can be attained, either with or without the sanction of the popular vote.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Perrine
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.