Smith v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1949
15 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 Scott v. Bush · Wardell v. Williams · Bowen v. Lansing · Wilkinson v. Heavenrich · Mull v. Smith
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The decision was based upon another section of the statute of frauds which requires the writing to be signed by the parties to be charged therewith. We have sought to show that, in the case of the sale of real estate, the statute only requires the contract or memorandum to be signed by the vendor.” ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pangburn v. Sifford
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.