Allison v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1938
1 district · 11 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 Ennis v. Smith · People ex. rel. Hughes v. May · Camp v. Camp · Holbrook v. Cook · Doe ex dem. Marston v. Butler
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature must then have intended by the word ‘connected,’ the thought which that word represented according to the ‘common and approved usage of the language.’ “According to that usage at the time the act was passed, the word in question denoted any relation, whether organic or conventional by which one was ‘linked’ or ‘united’ to another. The word ‘affiliated,’ as sometimes used, was quite synonymous with it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has no application to those cases where the object of the litigation is to ascertain and settle the state or condition of the subject matter, as distinguished from the pecuniary rights or liabilities of confronting and contending litigants.”
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.