Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably 9 Mass. App. Ct. 412 - Markell v. Sidney B. Pfeifer Foundation, Inc. (1980), Birnbaum v. Pamoukis (1938)
34 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 National Bank v. Insurance Co. · Mackall v. Mackall · 10 E.H. Smith 341 - Ten Eyck v. . Whitbeck · Cohen v. Nagle · Dowie v. Driscoll
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It often has been said that where a conveyance is made to one occupying a fiduciary relation, it is presumed to have been executed by reason of that relation and not to have been a transaction as between strangers, and the burden of proof is placed upon the grantee to prove that the transaction was fair and just to the grantor and was not procured through fraud or undue influence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adelson v. Adelson
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.