Summers v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1975 · most notably Pyne v. Pyne (1946), Fifer v. Allen (1907)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 Britton v. Thornton · Hamlin v. United States Express Co. · Chrystie v. . Phyfe · Jones v. Miller · Hawley v. Inhabitants of Northampton
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.