Thompson v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably D.C. Roberts v. A.S. Roberts (1941), Condra v. Grogan Manufacturing Co. (1950)
33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are clearly of opinion that defendants should not have been charged with rent of the land in tiiis ease until a demand for .possession was made, and then not upon their improvements.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Broom v. Pearson
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.