Smith v. Steinrauf’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1992
12 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 Sentell v. New Orleans & Carrollton R. Co. · State ex. rel. Curtis v. City of Topeka · Thurston v. Carter · Harrington v. Miles · City of Independence v. Trouvalle
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems impossible in the light of these legislative and judicial expressions to decide that a dog is not property, nor a thing of value. . . . We are constrained, therefore, to hold that a dog is property; that the stealing of one is larceny; and that words charging the stealing of a dog are actionable per se.” (p. 484.) See, also, Smith v. Steinrauf, 140 Kan. 407 , 36 P. 2d 995 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fenske““All men are possessed of equal and inalienable natural rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.