Smith v. Hitchcock’s Empirical Analysis
226 U.S. 53 · 1912
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), United States Milwaukee Social Democratic Pub Co v. Burleson (1921)
37 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Downes v. Bidwell · Wolfe Londoner v. City and County of Denver · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Ogden v. Saunders
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wlith-out attempting a definition, we may say that generally a printed publication is a book when its contents are complete in themselves, deal with a single subject, betray no need of continuation, and, perhaps, have an appreciable size.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.