Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2002
18 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 State Railroad Tax Cases Taylor Collector et al. v. Secor et al. · Dows v. City of Chicago · Pittsburgh St Ry Co v. Board of Public Works of West Virginia · State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Holliday · Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Cheyenne
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only at that stage of the proceedings when his substantial right may be protected ... with the minimum amount of prejudice to the public]”
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.