79 Mo. App. 384 - Thoms v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1933
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to us that to allow the plaintiff to dismiss an appeal' which he has taken no steps to bring here, after the defendant has in all respects complied with the provisions of Section 2252, supra, to entitle him to an affirmance would be to deprive the defendants of a legal right which they have acquired by their diligence, and at the same time would privilege the plaintiff to escape the legal consequence which he has incurred by reason of his negligence, for should the appeal be dismissed, he, by writ of error, may have the errors of the circuit court reviewed, and in this wajr defeat the penalty imposed by the statute, for .failure to prosecute the appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pine v. Rybolt
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.