Smoot v. Judd’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 1978 · most notably Smoot v. Judd (1904), Carson v. Hecke (1920)
29 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 Wonderly v. Lafayette County · Crafts v. Dexter · Pentz v. Kuester · Heath v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · Rice & Wilson v. Tobias
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a person sui juris is sued and brought regularly into court by process to answer a petition that states on its face a good cause of action, though he may have a good defense, yet if he omits to plead it, or if he pleads it yet fails to sustain it by proof, and the judgment goes against him, his defense is extinguished in the judgment and can not afterwards be set up against it.”'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson v. Yancey
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.