Bartlett v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1937
10 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 Dwight v. Cutler · Davis v. Strobridge · Atkinson v. Scott · Getty v. Peters · Ferris v. Johnson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If plaintiffs were entitled to recover, the rule is that they were entitled to recover the payments made, and the reasonable value of the improvements made in good faith, less the value of the use of the premises.” Bartlett v. Smith, 146 Mich. 188 ( 117 Am. St. Rep. 625 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Himebaugh v. Chalker““The promise to extend the time of payment, if made, was a mere naked promise, resting in parol, without any consideration, and was therefore of no validity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. August v. Collins
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.