Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1921
9 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 Johnson v. Quarles · Curd v. Brown · Ringo v. Richardson · Ring v. Jamison · Chapman v. Dougherty
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in actions where one of the original parties to the contract or cause of action in issue and.on trial is dead, or is shown to the court to be insane, the other party to such contract or cause of action shall not be admitted to testify either in his own favor or in favor of any party to the action claiming under him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Higgins
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.