Smith v. Chappell’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably Blevins v. Manufacturers Record Publishing Co. (1958), Snelling v. Adair (1940)
6 federal appellate · 102 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 Waller v. Colvin · Doiron v. Lock, Moore & Co. · Commercial Germania Trust & Savings Bank v. White · Mecom v. Graves · Bayard v. Baldwin Lumber 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, as in this case, there are conflicting calls in the deed, and where the first call is followed by a general description which manifestly was intended to be a summing up of the intention of the parties as to the premises conveyed, such general description controls all prior words or phrases used, if sufficient to identify with certainty the premises conveyed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Union Bank v. Roy
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.