Smith v. . Clews’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1966 · most notably Chateaugay Ore & Iron Co. v. Blake (1892), Zendman v. Harry Winston, Inc. (1953)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 McNeil v. . the Tenth National Bank · Walls v. . Bailey · White v. . Hoyt · Boorman v. Jenkins · Smith v. . Clews
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rightful owner may be estopped by his own acts from asserting his title. If he has invested another with the usual evidences of title, or an apparent authority to dispose of it, he will not be allowed to make a claim against an innocent purchaser dealing on the faith of such apparent ownership.”
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.