Smith v. Elrod’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1973
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 O.P.R.R. Co. v. . Forrest · Babcock & Russell v. Hawkins · Averill v. Wood · Knowles v. Knowles
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.
“[Y]et it is well settled that a creditor may accept the mere promise of the debtor to perform some act in the future in satisfaction of the debt, and where such is the case the satisfaction is good and the debt extinguished without performance.”
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.