Smith Contracting Corp. v. Trojan Const. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
192 F.2d 234 · 1951
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Sil-Flo, Inc. v. SFHC, Inc. (1990), Stevenson Co Inc v. Bags of Flour Adm Milling Co Inc (1980)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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 Advance-Rumely Thresher Co. v. Alexander
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a pleader fails to set up a counterclaim through oversight, inadvertence, or excusable neglect, or when justice requires, he may by leave of court set up the counterclaim by amendment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lake v. Stewart · Marks v. Marks
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.