Smith v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably City of Missoula v. Mix (1950), Conran v. Girvin (1960)
2 district · 31 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 Towell v. Etter · Crill v. Hudson · Mobbs v. Burrow · Anderson v. MacE · Bode v. Rollwitz
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Accreted lands are included in assessment of lands described in accordance with government survey, though assessment is limited by its term's to number of acres specified in survey, and tax deed purchaser acquires the same title, whether they are described or not, as he does to the upland adjoining described by survey.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Criswell v. Wilson“«* * * no person may question the validity of a tax sale or deed unless he can first show that he, or those under whom he claims, had some, title to the property at the time of the sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alden v. Johnson
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.