Smith v. Judge’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1980
5 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 Markham v. Waterman · Ernst v. Foster · Pearson v. Orcutt · Scott v. Gillespie · Burbank v. Sweeney
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was the evident intention of Mrs. Robinson in making her will to regard the property she had received from her brother as her own, and except for the bequests to her niece and nephew, appellants herein, she apparently undertook to dispose of the property received from her brother’s estate just as she did with her own property. To the niece and nephew named in the Sutton will she gave $10,000 and $3,000 respectively, and. also made them and four other relatives residuary legatees. The bequests contained in her will amounted to considerably more than her own property separate and apart from that traceable to the Sutton estate.” (p. 114.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Judge
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.