Smith v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1985
19 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 Lowe v. Bliss · Brooke v. Struthers · Walker v. Thompson · Hill v. Todd · Gay v. Rainey
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon a mere contract for the payment of money or the performance of any other covenant, where the instrument is not such as comes within the definition of a negotiable instrument, one by merely signing his name upon the back thereof does not become either a guarantor or an endorser, within the law merchant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We are unwilling to assent to the contention that such instruments can or ought to be construed as negotiable instruments or promissory notes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n order to constitute a promissory note the instrument must be for a specified sum or certain sum of money.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.