Smith v. Kagey’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1957
14 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 Kinsley Bank v. Aderhold · Starkey v. Almena State Bank · Barnwell v. Kempton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As between the plaintiffs and defendants in the case before us, the issue was whether defendants were withholding moneys due the plaintiffs, and in connection therewith defendants were entitled to show they were not, but there is no provision of the code, nor any rule of pleading, which required the court to permit them to enlarge the issue so as to recover against a third person the amount of any judgment which might be rendered in favor of plaintiffs and against them, especially where the determination of such an issue required proof of a series of transactions between defendants and such third person in which plaintiff had no interest. . . .” (p.569.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kennedy v. Thompson
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.