Smith v. Freng’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1974
6 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 Estate of Kessler · Taylor v. Thieman · Laughnan v. Estate of Laughnan · Leiser v. Pagel · Schultz v. Andrus
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . In such a case the statute of limitations does not begin to run until the death of the promisor. Hence an action for the reasonable value of such services will lie at any time within six years after the death of the decedent, even though claimant began to render services many years prior to such death. [Cases cited.]” Smith v. Freng (1924), 182 Wis. 349, 354 , 193 N. W. 996 , 196 N. W. 887 , 197 N. W. 170 . 8”
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.