Smith v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1929
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 Redelsheimer v. Miller · Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad v. Clifford · Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville Railway Co. v. Beyerle · Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad v. McAnnally · Rice v. Manford
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is doubtful whether if the action had been commenced in the circuit court the complaint would not have been good after verdict, and, as the action was commenced before a justice of the peace, there is certainly no doubt that the complaint is sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milhollin v. Fuller
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.