Francisco v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 1959 · most notably Torrington Creamery, Inc. v. Davenport (1940), New York Bank Note Co. v. Hamilton Bank Note Engraving & Printing Co. (1905)
38 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Diamond Match Co. v. . Roeber
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the agreement can have no independent existence or vitality aside from the business,”
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.