Smith v. The State of Maryland at the Instance and for the Use of Carroll and Maccubbin’s Empirical Analysis
10 U.S. 286 · 1810
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1992 · most notably Cohens v. Virginia (1821), Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's (1816)
5 federal appellate · 2 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 De Butts v. Bacon
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“completely operative to divest the whole estate of the former owner, and to vest it in the state ... it is perfectly immaterial, at what time the right of the state to the lands now in controversy, thus completed prior to the treaty, was discovered, or at what time actual seisin and possession was obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to seize, confiscate, and appropriate all British property within [the] state.”
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.