Lasky v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1974
11 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 Barabasz v. Kabat · Boyd v. Cross · Cecil v. Clarke · Bowen v. Tascoe
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here the prayer was offered directing a verdict for the defendant, but, as this prayer was renewed at the close of the whole case, the refusal to grant it at the close of the plaintiff's case is not open for review now.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.