Smith v. Adsit’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably City of Trenton v. New Jersey (1923), Deepsouth Packing Co. v. Laitram Corp. (1972)
47 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 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 Smith v. Adsit
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that all sales, mortgages, powers, or other instruments of writing going to affect the title or claim to any such bounty right, made or executed prior to the issue of the warrant or certificate, should be null and void to all intents and purposes whatever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Adsit“Nothing is left of the ease, but the fact of obtaining by Adsit Holmes’s discharge, and procuring thereon a warrant to be issued for the land in controversy. The most that can be said of this is, that the transaction was in violation of an act of Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Adsit“If Holmes has any right to the money Adsit received for the land, he can prosecute that right in a court of law, and recover according to the justice of his case. “Decree reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Adsit
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.