Thompson v. Deal’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.2d 478 · 1937
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Knowles v. War Damage Corp. (1948), Richfield Oil Corp. v. United States (1957)
22 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 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
Applies 7 U.S.C. § 601 · 7 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · United States v. Butler · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · State of Minnesota v. Ethan Allen Hitchcock · Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co. v. United States
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The old rule that there could be duress only where there was a threat of loss of life, limb, or liberty has been so changed that duress may sometimes be implied when a payment is made or an act performed to prevent great property loss or heavy penalties when there seems no adequate remedy except to submit to an unjust or illegal demand and then seek redress in the courts.”
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.