Smith v. Power’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1972
16 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 Jackson v. Chew · Lessee v. Wendell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To constitute title or color of title, there must be a chain of transfer from or under the sovereignty of the soil.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horton v. Halff
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.