Bement v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1836
Citation profile
36
cited by 36 later decisions
13
states following
June 1922
most recently cited
1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 1922 · most notably Pollen v. . Le Roy (1864), Saladin v. Mitchell (1867)
1 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
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.