Smith v. Drummond’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blanchard v. Villeneuve · Vermont Structural Steel Corp. v. S. D. Ireland Concrete Construction Corp. · Branch v. Department of Employment Security
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]aking the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party and excluding the effects of modifying evidence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patten
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.