Smart v. Embry’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1981
10 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 3 Smith & H. 202 - Odom v. Sanford & Treadway · Clendening v. London Assurance Co. · Barker v. Curtis · State v. Estes · Duncan v. Rhea County
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that the principal contractor reserves a right to supervise or inspect the work during its performance, does not make the subcontractor an employee or mere servant, where there is no right of control of the method of performance, except to see that the end result conforms to the plans and specifications. Smart v. Embry, 348 S.W.2d at 324 -25”
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.