Thompson v. Doty’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1968
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Simson v. Hart · Belmont v. Erie Railway Co. · Town of Ligonier v. Ackerman · Town of Brazil v. Kress · Town of Edinburg v. Hackney
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Illegal’ means that which lacks authority of or support from law. . . . ‘Erroneous’ means deviating from the law. . . . The expression ‘erroneous and illegal’ can only be taken to mean deviation from the law because of a mistaken construction of the law.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.