Thompson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.2d 936 · 1939
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Baird v. Koerner (1960), Emmett v. Eastern Dispensary & Casualty Hospital (1967)
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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 Mackall v. Mackall · Conley v. Nailor · Renihan v. . Dennin · Burney v. Torrey · The Berry Will Case
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he phrase `legal representatives' has an accepted meaning which includes `executor'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of sound and disposing mind and capable of executing a valid deed or contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weihs v. Holmead“duty to inquire into the competency of the maker of the will.”
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.