Palace Hardware Co. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably 28 Cal. 4th 249 - Zamora v. Clayborn Contracting Group, Inc. (2002), Lusas v. St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Corp. (1937)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Moore v. Copp · Brackett v. Banegas · Rauer v. Wolf
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consented to the dismissal to his injury, under a mistake of fact, excusable under the terms of the statute, ... is not barred of relief.”
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.