Schwed v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 188 · 1882
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1944 · most notably Davis v. Schwartz (1895), Stewart v. Dunham (1885)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Seaver v. Bigelows
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the decree is several as to the creditors, it is difficult to see why it is not as to their adversaries. The theory is, that, although the proceeding is in form but one suit, its legal effect is the same as though separate suits had been begun on each of the separate causes of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. Shufeldt“It is impossible to distinguish this case in principle from Seaver v. Bigelows, 5 Wall. 208 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. Shufeldt
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.