Smith v. Goodrich’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1934
10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSmith v. Knox Goodrich
Relationships
Relies on McGarvey v. Darnall
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The holder of the note, who, for his own benefit, had the deed and note placed as an escrow, had a right to waive the advantage he had by the retention of the deed, and allow it to be delivered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Riggins
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.