Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1952
15 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 Greenfield v. McIntyre · Mills v. Geer · North Georgia Milling Co. v. Henderson Elevator Co. · Huff v. McDonald · Moughon v. Masterson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, heirs can not in this State have an equitable accounting for personal property of their ancestor, even though there may be no administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Murray
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.