Smith v. Sloan’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Kroger Company v. Giem (1964), Southeastern Aviation, Inc. v. Hurd (1962)
9 federal appellate · 58 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Osborn v. City of Nashville · 29 Tenn. App. 327 - Poole v. First Nat. Bank of Smyrna · Jackson v. B. Lowenstein Bros., Inc. · Wildman Mfg. Co. v. Davenport Hosiery Mills
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to look to all the evidence, to take as true the evidence for plaintiff, to discard all countervailing evidence, to take the strongest legitimate view of the evidence for plaintiff, to allow all reasonable inferences from it in his favor; and if then there is any dispute as to any material determinative evidence, or any doubt as to the conclusion to be drawn from the whole evidence, the motion must be denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Jordan
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.