First Nat. Bank v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 1982 · most notably 27 Ala. App. 64 - Dixon v. State (1936), State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Allen (1929)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 Ballentyne v. Wickersham · Ex parte Pollard · Lindsay v. United States Savings & Loan Ass'n · State ex rel. Devening v. Bartholomew · Polytinsky v. Johnston
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the maintenance of the roads and bridges, after their construction, is clearly germane to the purpose of the act, which is to supply the people with highways which are capable of continuous service. And, indeed, the authorities hold that, when authority or duty is imposed by law upon a governmental body to `construct' any public work or utility, that term includes also the duty of maintenance and protection of keeping it constructed by means of necessary repairs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The amendment was a material and contradictory alteration of the advertised substance of the bill.””
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.