Smith v. Switzer’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably Hobbs v. LINDSEY, SHERIFF, ETC. (1959), 119 Ind. App. 481 - Neuwelt v. Roush (1949)
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 Baker v. Schofield · Johnson v. Johnson · Ward v. Yarnelle · First National Bank v. Northwestern National Bank · Kessler v. City of Indianapolis
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether or not evidence introduced in behalf of the plaintiff, assuming it to be true, and considering as proved all facts which the evidence proves, or by legitimate inference tends to prove, establishes the plaintiff's case as laid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall
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.