Smith v. McKee’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2018
16 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 Gray v. United States · Mascarenas v. Jaramillo · Shaeffer v. Kelton · McCoy Farms, Inc. v. J & M McKEE · Worthey v. Sedillo Title Guaranty, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prejudgment interest is awarded as a matter of right only when a party has breached a duty to pay a definite sum of money or “the amount due under the contract can be ascertained with reasonable certainty by a mathematical standard fixed in the contract or by established market prices.””
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.