Smith v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2005
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Glock v. Howard & Wilson Colony Co. · Smith v. Bangham · Drew v. Pedlar · Hicks v. Post · Long Beach City School District v. Dodge
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Equally indisputable is the fact that defendant, did not employ plaintiff generally as a broker to secure a purchaser for his property. He agreed to pay him commissions for a contemplated specific sale to Mrs. Bilhorn or to her nominees, upon specific terms of sale clearly set forth in writing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McComas v. Smith
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.