Smith v. Blodget’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably 31 Cal. App. 4th 573 - Union Bank v. Superior Court (1995), 27 Cal. 2d 131 - Sears v. Rule (1945)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Mitau v. Roddan · Revert v. Hesse · Lomita Land and Water Co. v. Robinson · Woodruff v. Hughes · Robinson v. Easton Eldridge & Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case here presented is one where the intention of the parties is imperfectly expressed and the language employed by them is ambiguous and required interpretation. It- was, therefore, permissible for the court to take into consideration the construction placed upon the instrument by the various persons concerned. . . . Taking into consideration the dealings previously set forth, the various assignments of the option and the manner in which the sale was conducted by all the persons involved, the evidence must be held sufficient to support the finding of the trial court ‘that the said instrument was acted upon and construed by the grantors thereof and all the parties to this action as an option and not as a mere agency authorization'.””
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.