Smith v. Kimsey’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2005
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 Mansfield, Brunson, Kemp & Ahrens v. King · Bankers Mortgage Co. v. Leisure · Jones v. Woodward · Yoder v. Weston · Ostran v. Bond
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the means of discovering fraud are in the hands of the party defrauded and the defrauding party has not covered up his fraud to the extent that it would be difficult or impossible to discover, the party de frauded will be deemed to have had notice of the fraud from the date the means of discovering’ such fraud came into his hands, and the fraud will be deemed to have been discovered upon that date.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““In cases of fraud the statute of limitations begins to run only from the time of discovery of the fraud, or from such time as the defrauded party, by exercise of ordinary diligence, might have discovered such fraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Woodward
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.