Smith v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Benjamin v. Dalmo Manufacturing Co. (1948), 16 Cal. 2d 563 - Estate of Estrem (1940)
52 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 Parsons v. Weis · Canadian & American Mortgage & Trust Co. v. Clarita Land & Investment Co. · Norton v. Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fé Railroad · People ex rel. Schwartz v. Temple · In Re the Estate & Guardianship of Eikerenkotter
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.