Smith Bros. v. Agee & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Johnson Publishing Co. v. Davis (1960), Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co. v. Murphy (1933)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Callahan v. Ingram · Fresh v. Cutter · Page v. Citizens Banking Co. · Ferdon v. Dickens · Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Taylor
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty under which the party is privileged to make the communication need not be one having the force of legal obligation, but it is sufficient if it is social or moral in its nature and defendant in good faith believes he is acting in pursuance thereof, although in fact he is mistaken.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The term ‘damn rascal’ is an opprobrious expression and is one of the strongest expressions to convey the idea of moral turpitude.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.