Smoot v. Rea’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1993 · most notably Blondell v. Turover (1950), The Glendale Corp. v. Crawford (1983)
1 federal appellate · 22 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To entitle a purchaser to demand a deed, it is sufficient that he is ready, and offers to comply, with the contract on his part, and has the ability to perform it.””
1 later decision 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.