Smiley v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Wynn v. Sklar & Phillips Oil Company (1973), Atlantic Refining Company v. Beach (1968)
30 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 Sorkin v. Myers · Texas Company v. Snow · Beach v. Nordman · Temple v. Lawson · Davis v. Stonecipher
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All of [Smiley’s] defenses of the Statute of Limitations, Laches and Statute of Nonclaims against the Thomases are without merit. There had been no constructive eviction, in effect, until the present suit was filed in December, 1950, wherein Mrs. Smiley was a party and the court held, as indicated, that O’Brien Bros, owned the 14 mineral interest in the land involved here and that the covenant of warranty in the above deed had been breached.”
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.