Earven v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Cochise College Park Inc Hall v. Perry B-72-393 Phx Wpc (1983), Grand Real Estate, Inc. v. Sirignano (1983)
6 federal appellate · 30 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 Prentice v. North American Title Guaranty Corp. · Sellinger v. Freeway Mobile Home Sales, Inc. · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Frohmiller · Weatherford v. Adams · Title Insurance Co. of Minnesota v. Acumen Trading Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“promissory note given as part of a land sales agreement”
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.