Smith v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
June 1967
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on First Nat. Bank of Mounds v. Cox · Goodloe v. Goodloe · Poole v. Janovy · Updike v. Broeck · Gelvin v. Perkins
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ‘common counts’ in our jurisdiction would be the contract to pay for the services either expressed or implied. We hold that the plaintiff here had the right, upon being informed that the defendant did not consider herself bound by the agreement, to sue from and after the date that she was informed that the defendant had repudiated the agreement and refused to make any settlement. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Muir v. Shick
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.