Thomas v. Dansby’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1920
15 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 Flynn v. Fogarty · Brockway v. Patterson · Larzelere v. Kirchgessner
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the injury was occasioned by reason of the intoxication of Thomas or Free, and such intoxication was produced in whole or in -part by the liquors sold or furnished by defendant Dansby, then the case.would fall within the terms of the statute, and a recovery could be had if the plaintiff by reason thereof was injured in her means of support.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doty v. Postal
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.