Smith v. Bolles’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 125 · 1889
Citation profile
129 federal appellate · 31 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 305 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Blackie v. Barrack (1975), Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York (2010)
129 federal appellate · 31 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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 Lincoln v. Claflin · Castle v. Bullard · Claflin v. Commonwealth Ins Co of Boston Massachusetts Same · Butler v. Watkins
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 305 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The damage to be recovered must always be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of,' says Mr. Greenleaf, Vol. 2, § 256; and `the test is,' adds Chief Justice Beasley, in Crater v. Binninger, 33 N.J.Law (4 Vroom) 513, 518, `that those results are proximate which the wrong-doer, from his position, must have contemplated as the probable consequence of his fraud or breach of contract.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The test is that those results are proximate which the wrongdoer, from his position, must have contemplated as the probable consequences of his fraud or breach of contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zobrist v. Estes“expected fruits of an unrealized speculation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Osofsky v. Zipf
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.