Thompson v. Lassiter’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2007
13 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 Mervine v. Parker · Lockhart v. McElroy · Branch Bank at Mobile v. Coleman · Munter v. Leinkauff
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Matter which operates an equitable satisfaction of a judgment, may be inquired into by this proceeding [supersedeas], and an execution issued to enforce the judgment may be superseded and vacated; but matters which go behind the judgment, can not be inquired into.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.