Ward v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
February 1991
most recently cited
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably Graham v. North Carolina Butane Gas Co. (1950), Shugar v. Guill (1981)
36 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.
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.