Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1980
13 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 Hoover v. Hoover · Grimball v. Patton
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after due consideration, I modify said devise by saying, that I do not wish any of the lands sold by said devisees, except the pasture lands, but that they be held and cultivated by said devisees (her two nephews), being satisfied by so doing, they will make themselves useful, independent and happy members of society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Darrow v. Moore““ * * * Words of survivorship in a will, unless there is manifest intent to the contrary, always relate to the death of the testator, and that, in the absence of a contrary intent, a will always speaks as from tlio date of the testator’s death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If there is an immediate gift to A. and a gift over in case of his death, or if he die, or any similar expression implying the death to be a contingent event, the gift over will take effect only in the event of A.’s death before the testator.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haigler v. Haigler
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.