Smith v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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.

1. ““Actions for the following causes must be brought in the county in which the subject of the action is situated, except as provided in the next section: First — For the recovery of real property, or of any estate or interest therein, or for tire determination in any form of any such right or interest, or to bar any defendant therefrom. . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Huerter v. Hassig

2. “‘'Under the common law as frequently declared by this court, water in the natural channel of a running stream is an inseparable attribute of the land through which the stream flows. In legal parlance it is part and parcel of the land itself.” (p. 42.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Kansas State Board of Agriculture