Thruston v. Big Stone Gap Imp. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
86 F. 484 · 1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1964
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
““A cross-bill is brought by a defendant in a suit against the plaintiff in the same suit, or against other defendants in the same suit, or against both, touching the matters in question in the original bill. * * * The office of a cross-bill has been very fully discussed at this term by Mr. Justice Curtis in the case of Victor Shields et al., v., Barrow; and I need not, therefore, pursue it, but refer only to that opinion for the true doctrine on the subject””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newton v. Gage
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.