Smith v. Baggett’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably Moore-Handley Hardware Co. v. Williams (1939), Hunt v. Ward (1955)
68 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 Grauer v. Alabama Great Southern R. Co. · Edwards v. Earnest · Birmingham Railway & Electric Co. v. Wildman · Montevallo Mining Co. v. Little · Birmingham Ry. L. & P. Co. v. Colbert
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unquestionably well settled that proof that a defendant had indemnity insurance is not admissible as an independent fact, but we have had cases where it is when collateral to other material facts or so associated with or interwoven as to be inseparable that it becomes admissible and can only be eradicated or neutralized as bearing upon the defendant’s liability by a limitation upon the effect of such evidence. The plaintiff testified that defendant said, when approached about fixing the car: “ ‘Let it stay over there and I’ll see the insurance man; send him over there to look at it and then he would have it moved off and have it fixed.’ ””
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.