Smith v. Rector’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1950
24 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 Black v. Black · McNeil v. Jordan · Pinkerton v. Pinkerton · State v. Matthews · Kahm v. Klaus
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The phrase, ‘until discovery of the fraud,’ in subdivision 3 of section 18 of the code (Gen. Stat. 1901, § 4446; now G. S. 1935, 60-306, paragraph Third-), which provides the limitation of two years in case of ‘action for relief on the ground of fraud,’ . . . does not necessarily mean until the party complaining had actual notice of the fraud alleged to have been committed, for constructive notice of the fraud is sufficient to set the statute in motion even though there may be no actual notice. Where the means of discovery lie in public records required by law to be kept, which involve the very transaction in hand, and the interests of the parties to the litigation, the public records themselves are sufficient constructive notice of the fraud to set the statute in motion.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kotzman v. Papish
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.