Smith v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2005
11 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 Cassidy v. Gould · De Watteville v. Sims · Hoff v. Hoff · Wilson-Harris, Adm'x v. Southwest Telephone Co. · Hickey v. Ross
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The compromise and settlement of a claim or cause of action is not an admission that the claim is valid, but merely admits that there is a dispute, and that an amount is paid to be rid of the controversy....” Smith v. Williamson, 1953 OK -, 208 Okla. 323 , 256 P.2d 174, 181 , quoting 15 C.J.S. Compromise and Settlement § 22. 8 . The settlement agreement provided,”
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.