Thomas Lucas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2001
1 federal appellate ·
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 Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Hudson v. Palmer
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“include[s] every disposition of any interest in a real property sales contract or promissory note secured directly or collaterally by a lien on real property”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re: First T.D. & Investment, Inc. Joint Development, Inc., Debtors. R. Todd Neilson, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Angela Shiu Rong Chang Angela Shiu Rong Chang, F/b/o the Angela Chang Family Trust Cynthia L. Lien Galaxy Industrial Corporation Anna P. Jen Kin Wen F. Kuo Tsu C. Kuo Sze Ming Ma Cheng H. Ma Irene Werner Haitang Li Ru Lin Wu Hong Yang Xiao Ping Sun Steve Po-An Mu Yang Ying Chang Mu Rita Chwen-Yi Tsai Pei Ti Wan, R. Todd Neilson, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Angela Shiu Rong Chang Cynthia L. Lien Galaxy Industrial Corporation Anna P. Jen Kin Wen F. Kuo Tsu C. Kuo Sze Ming Ma Cheng H. Ma Irene Werner Haitang Li Ru Lin Wu Hong Yang Xiao Ping Sun Steve Po-An Mu Yang Ying Chang Mu Rita Chwen-Yi Tsai Pei Ti Wan Ming Yeng Wang Ping Yuan Liu Ching I Liu Catherine Chang Peter L. Chang Julie Shih Simon Shih Julijanti Lucie Moeis Lin Chu Tsai Hsiu Chuan Wang Chen Chang a Lan Huang Hsiu Ying Kuo Hsien Huei Lin Tsai Chu Lin Chien Yueh O Lien Accurate Escrow, Inc. Angela Shiu Rong Chang, F/b/o the Angela Chang Family Trust · In Re: First Td Investment Inc“to make final determinations in matters that could have been brought in a district court or a state court.”
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.