Smith v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2013
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Shaw v. Jones, Newton & Co. · Neely v. Sheppard · Hightower v. Ansley · Graham v. Theis · Taylor v. Boles
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Goodwill]” as the term is used when speaking of the [goodwill] of a business, is not corporeal property; but it has been often defined as advantage or benefit acquired by an establishment, beyond the mere value of property employed in a business, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it receives from constant or habitual customers on account of its local position, or for other reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.