Smith v. Litton’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1980
1 federal appellate ·
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 Johnson v. Powhatan Mining Co. · Durrett v. Harris · Eubank & Caldwell, Inc. v. Fuller
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]rustee in bankruptcy is governed by the same laws applicable to other trustees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Brisbane
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.