Smith v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1970
14 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 Donnor v. Quartermas · McMath v. DeBardelaben · Gore v. Dickinson · Berry v. Tennessee & Coosa Railroad · Pickering v. Townsend & Brown
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Two or more tenants in common may unite in a bill against another co-tenant, and may jointly elect to consider their several moieties as one moiety, and to have it set apart to them as one undivided fractional share of the whole. — Donner v. Quartermas, 90 Ala. 164 , 8 South. 715 , 24 Am.St. Rep. 778; Freeman on Co-Tenancy, § 459; 30 Cyc. 240-261. . . . ” Smith, et al. v. Hill, 168 Ala. 317, 323 , 52 So. 949, 950 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. Ellis
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.