Smith v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1989
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 Tripp v. Bagley · Home Owners' Loan Corporation v. Dudley · Briem v. Smith
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Since Browning and defendant were not adjoining landowners, Browning could not have constructed the cement coping on his east line to settle any boundary dispute. Browning claimed title only to the fence. In fact, he and defendant were never adjoining landowners, for Aaron Jackson continued to be the record owner of the 2 foot strip of ground adjoining the land conveyed to Browning. Said strip separated the lands of defendant and Browning.”
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.