Thompson v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 694 · 1877
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably Norman v. Baltimore & or (1935), Perry v. United States (1935)
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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 Bronson v. Rodes · Benjamin Knapp v. Edmund Banks · Walker v. United States · Gordon v. Ogden
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Undoubtedly the trial court may refuse to permit a verdict to be reduced by A plaintiff upon his own motion ; and if the object of the reduction is to deprive an appellate court of its jurisdiction in a meritorious case, it is to be presumed the trial court will not allow it to be done. If, however, the reduction is ■ permitted, the errors in the record will be shut out from our reexamination in cases where our jurisdiction depends on the amount in controversy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A coin dollar is worth no more for the purposes of tender in payment of an ordinary debt than a note dollar. The law has not made the note a standard of value any more than coin. It is true that in the market, as an article of merchandise, one is of greater value than the other; but as money, that is to say, as a medium of exchange, the law knows no difference between them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.