Smith v. Higinbothom’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably State v. Fabritz (1975), Degren v. State (1999)
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 161 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 United States v. Gilliland · Gooch v. United States · Mason v. United States · United States v. Standard Brewery, Inc. · Bouse v. Hutzler
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the language is plain and unambiguous, the judicial construction cannot be controlled by extraneous considerations. No custom, however venerable, can nullify the plain meaning and purpose of a statute.” Schaefer could be cited for the latter proposition because we there held, despite the prior construction by the Comptroller, that his”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[U]nder the established rule of ejusdem generis [,] where general words in a statute follow the designation of particular things or classes of subjects or persons, the general words 'will usually be construed to include only those things or persons of the same class or general nature as those specifically mentioned. This rule is based on the supposition that if the Legislature had intended the general words to be considered in an unrestricted sense, it would not have enumerated the particular things.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Degren v. State
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.