Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1960
18 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 Brown v. Campbell · Harris v. Barnhart · Felch v. Beaudry · Woodbury v. Bowman · Montgomery v. Harrington
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is contended that the rule in this state is that pending the appeal the judgment cannot he used as evidence for any purpose whatever. A rule so general and absolute would manifestly be unreasonable, and goes much beyond the decisions. The rule is simply that one cannot avail himself of an adjudication establishing a right while the judgment is suspended by an appeal.””
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.