Irelan v. Smoot’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1960
15 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 Carson v. Waller
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The plaintiff does not claim that he entered into any contract with the defendant Irelan (the owner). The contract was made with P. J. King, the contractor mentioned in the contract (the contract between Irelan and King). * * * It follows that the plaintiff was not an original contractor, but was a subcontractor. * *” (Our remarks in parentheses).”
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.