Smith v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently October 1973 · most notably Freeport Water Company v. City of Freeport (1901), Henderson v. City of Lexington (1908)
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 State v. Berdetta · Ligare v. City of Chicago · Chicago Dock & Canal Co. v. Garrity · The People v. . Vanderbilt · Gridley v. City of Bloomington
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.