Smith v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1958
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 Wilkinson v. Roper
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That corner is a base point, from which two sides of the land conveyed shall extend an equal distance, so as to include by parallel lines the quantity conveyed. From this point the section lines extend north and east so as to fix the boundary west and south. The east and north boundaries only are to be established by construction, and the rule referred to gives them with sufficient certainty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diffie v. White““One acre, being the southeast corner of the northeast fourth of the southeast quarter of section 2, township 43, range 24, Henry county, Missouri.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diffie v. White
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.