State Ex Rel. Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably 562 So. 2d 1212 - City of Mound Bayou v. Johnson (1990), Shaw v. McCorkle (1976)
8 federal appellate · 12 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 Jones v. Alden Mills · Lewis v. State ex rel. Noxubee County · Bell v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will be observed that the causes of action set forth in the statute result from breaches of duties which all persons owe to every other person, and do not cover the breach of a duty specially imposed by law on one for the benefit of another.... The declaration sets forth not a mere, assault and battery, or maiming, but a breach of the sheriff’s official duty, the assault and battery, or maiming, being the particular breach thereof; and the cause of action is this breach of the deputy sheriff’s official duties. The statute, therefore, does not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he official bond of a public officer is a contract which the law requires him to execute, by which he and his sureties covenant and agree that he will faithfully discharge all of the duties of his office, which contract is breached by the failure of the officer to discharge any of his official duties.” (Emphasis added). 156 Miss, at 292, 125 So. at 826 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.