Smith v. Bratsos’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 1992 · most notably Rayne State Bank & Trust Co. v. Nat. Union Fire Ins. Co. (1986), Central Sav. Bank & Trust Co. v. Oilfield Supply & Scrap Material Co. (1943)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Union Bldg. Corporation v. Burmeister · Smith v. Bratsos
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since there was only one refrigerator of this nature and make in the defendant’s place of business, we must reach the conclusion that the description was sufficient and especially as to the lessor. Moreover, the description was sufficient with the aid of inquiries which it would suggest to identify the chattel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abbott v. Temple“'A description which will enable third persons, aided by inquiries which the instrument itself suggests, to identify the property, is sufficient.' Vol. I, § 54, p. 96.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matthews v. Couie
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.