Smith v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
187 F. 40 · 1910
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1963 · most notably Newton v. Consolidated Gas Co. (1924), Eastern S. S. Corp. v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (1919)
15 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 The Scotia · Edward St John v. Zebulon a Paine · The Volund · Public Schools v. Walker · Hughes
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tilts rule lias been pronounced, by those having the largest experience and the highest intelligence on the subject,, the safest tiling under general circumstances that can be pursued.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Brand
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.