Smith v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2015
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Langhorne v. Turman · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Newland · Williams v. Fresno Canal & Irrigation Co. · Busby v. Holthaus · Louisville & Nashville R. v. Holzhauer
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is conceded in this case that no notice was given, but defendants rely upon the knowledge the plaintiff had of the work. Manifestly such knowledge, to be available as a defense to defendants, must have been such as a lawful notice would have imputed to the plaintiff. The mere fact that he knew the work was going on was in itself insufficient; manifestly he must have known, also, not only the proximity of the excavation to his own property, and the extent thereof on the surface as proposed, but he must have known the depth, particularly along or near to his own property line, in order to determíne the necessity for precautionary measures on his part.””
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.