Smith v. Bott’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1989
9 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 Mizar v. Jones · Levine v. Colorado Transportation Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) ... Unless the court in its order for dismissal otherwise specifies a dismissal under this section (b) and any dismissal not provided for in this Rule [with specified exceptions not pertinent here] operates as an adjudication upon the merits.” “(2) Actions not prosecuted or brought to trial with due diligence may be dismissed with prejudice after reasonable notice by the court pursuant to rules adopted by it.” (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carlson v. Benton
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.