Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.2d 655 · 1946
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1971
4 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 Maxwell Land Grant Co. v. Dawson · Oliphant v. Markham · Mills v. Pitts · Reusens v. Lawson · Landa v. Obert
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since a plaintiff in trespass to try title must recover on the strength of his own title, he can never recover by merely showing a claim under deeds to those parcels of land which remain unsold by the grantors on particular dates without any proof whatever of the specific parcels of land which were unsold.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Seddon v. Harrison
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.