Thomson v. Gortner’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Strickler Engineering Corp. v. Seminar, Inc. (1956), Creamer v. Helferstay (1982)
5 federal appellate · 46 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well-settled law that trover will lie for the conversion of a promissory note or other negotiable instrument, as well as for any other article of personal property. Winner v. Penniman, 35 Md. 163 ; Brown et al. v. Bokee, Adm’r, 53 Md. 170 .””
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.