Smith v. Abbate’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2010
2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Gibbs v. Buck · Thomson v. Gaskill · Healy Nh v. Ratta · KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
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1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The general rule with respect to the aggregation of the claims of a plaintiff against two or more defendants is that `where a suit is brought against several defendants asserting claims against each of them which are separate and distinct, the test of jurisdiction is the amount of each claim, and not their aggregate.”
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.