Smith v. Milam’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2001
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Tynberg v. Isaac & Cohen · Yaffe Iron Metal Company v. Pulaski County · Davis v. Herrington · Reeder v. Cargill
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A sufficient answer to this is that the statute of fraud was not pleaded in the lower court and cannot be interjected into the case for the first time on appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. Hindsley
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.