Smith v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2017
1 district · 13 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 Stuart v. Pennis · King v. Merriman · Young v. Camp Manufacturing Co. · Brown v. Surry Lumber Co. · Quigley Furniture Co. v. Rhea
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Those decisions would seem, therefore, to settle, if decisions can settle a question, that the provisions in such contracts lor the cutting and removal of the timber within a fixed period are not covenants, but conditions.””
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.