Smith v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably 329 So. 2d 744 - Prados v. South Central Bell Telephone Company (1976), 135 So. 2d 91 - LaFleur v. Sylvester (1961)
2 federal appellate · 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 Lawrence v. Claiborne · State v. Boggan · Franton v. Rusca · Smith v. Bell
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Neither shall parol evidence be admitted against or beyond what is contained in the acts, nor on what may have been said before, or at the time of making them, or since."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““The sale of a thing includes that of its accessories, and of whatever has been destined for its constant use, unless there be a reservation to the contrary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Considered alone the notarial act of May 11, 1950, sufficiently evidenced a transfer to defendant of the contested farm implements and equipment, and this plaintiff seems to concede. Those articles, at the time, were located on the conveyed plantation for its service and improvement; their status was that of immovables by destination; and they were not excepted or reserved from the sale. As said in LSA-Civil Code, Article 468: (The article is then quoted). Again, LSA-Civil Code, Article 2461 states: `The sale of a thing includes that of its accessories, and of whatever has been destined for its constant use, unless there is a reservation to the contrary.'"”
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.