Thompson v. Nims’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1966
10 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 Williams v. Williams
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This agreement is a fact to be proven. It may be proven by circumstantial evidence as many other facts are proven. In this case there is no direct evidence that these parties promised to assume the relations of husband and wife, but the circumstances proven seem to us very persuasive and to justify the finding that, there was a marriage in fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Becker v. Becker
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.