Smith v. Farrell’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Edmund J. Flynn Co. v. LaVay (1981), Allen v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1981)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Mullins v. Mingo Lime & Lumber Co. · Weill v. Brown · Moran v. Hammersla · 73 Ga. App. 221 - Hester v. State · 73 Ga. App. 221 - Denton v. Etheridge
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he parties must have a distinct intention common to both and without doubt or difference. Until all understand alike, there can be no assent, and, therefore, no contract. Both parties must assent to the same thing in the same sense, and their minds must meet as to all the term's. If any portion of the proposed terms is not settled ... there is no agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable certainty is all that is required.”
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.