Smith v. Hendrix’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1953
17 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the dates fixed in chapter 25 of the Extraordinary Session, Laws of 1931, the first Monday of April and the third Monday of September, there is no preference or distinction; both were regular days, fixed by law, for the sale of lands for unpaid taxes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tardo v. Sterling
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.