Smith v. Chaffee’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2012
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Feldmesser v. Lemberger · Leslie v. Carter · Bergquist v. Kreidler · Stickney v. Goward · Kelly v. Rogers
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attorney guilty of deceit or collusion, with intent to deceive any party to a lawsuit, or guilty of delaying his client’s cause for his own gain or benefit, has always, so far as we know, been liable in damages to the party injured thereby. The section does treble the damages to be recovered in such an action, but does not create a new cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Anderson“[t]here was no such action or proceeding pending or under consideration at the time of the deceit here claimed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Ploetz
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.