Smith v. Biddle’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably 53 Md. App. 379 - Cavalier Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Liberty Homes, Inc. (1983), Standard American Homes, Inc. v. Pasadena Building Co. (1959)
42 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 Trotter v. Lewis · Doering v. Fields · Tarses v. Miller Fruit & Produce Co. · Bond v. Weller · Gibbs v. Meredith
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellee seems to think that Rule 9 of this Court, relating to appeals generally, and Section 40 of Article 5, Code, 1939, bar the appellants from raising in this court matters not presented and argued before the chancellor, but we will pass the matter with the comment that this court will always inquire into the question of whether a contract sought to be specifically enforced is in form that the law requires. Certainly our rule, and the provisions of the code cited, would not bar this court in an inquiry as to whether a contract for the sale of land was violative of the Statute of Frauds, or whéther a third party had authority to sign a contract on behalf of the vendor; or whether the contract was so uncertain and duplicitous as to be unenforceable.” (Emphasis added.) 188 Md. at 318 , 52 A. 2d at 474 2”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.