Smith v. Merck’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Telfair v. First Union Mortgage Corp. (2000), 110 Ga. App. 417 - Clinton v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1964)
9 federal appellate · 33 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 Lavender v. Kurn · Bowden v. Achor · Simpson v. Georgia, Southern & Florida Railway Co. · Elliott v. Marshall · Williams v. Fottché
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Agency is the relationship which results from the manifestation of consent by one person to another that the other shall act on his behalf and subject to his control, and consent by the other so to act.”
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.