Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Rook v. Rook (1987), School Board v. Caudill Rowlett Scott, Inc. (1989)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Martin v. Commonwealth · Timmons v. Commonwealth · Enoch v. Commonwealth · Smith v. Commonwealth · Harvey v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Va.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After twenty-one days from its date of entry, a voidable judgment can be corrected only by writ of error to this court for review, and proper steps must be taken to obtain the review within the time prescribed by statute. A final judgment or sentence valid in a court of original entry is final and conclusive upon all courts (except on appeal) after the court pronouncing judgment has lost jurisdiction of the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“All final judgments, orders, and decrees, irrespective of terms of court, shall remain under the control of the trial court and subject to be modified, vacated, or suspended for twenty-one days after the date of entry, and no longer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rook v. Rook
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.