Smith v. Anders’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1982
13 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 Silverman v. Caddo Gas & Oil Co. · Sitman v. Lindsey · Murphy v. Southern Mineral & Land Improvement Co. · Bryan v. Holland · Godchaux v. Chicago Lumber & Coal Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * It is well settled that a buyer cannot maintain an action for damages for the seller's failure to fulfill a contract to sell and deliver goods, if the buyer was in default by failing to pay promptly, at the time stipulated, for the goods that were delivered under the contract. * * *”
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.