Smith v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2025
8 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 Nepera Chemical, Inc. v. Sea-Land Service, Inc. · Barrows v. Boles · Keenan v. Fearon · St. Germain v. Adams · Pugliese v. Town of Northwood Planning Board
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to either not consider the issue or re-open the record and allow the parties to present evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a party to present points of law or fact that the [c]ourt has overlooked or misapprehended”
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.