Smith v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Beahm v. Shortall (1977), Ellsworth v. Sherne Lingerie, Inc. (1985)
33 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 New York Life Ins. v. Taylor · Morrow v. State · J. A. Laporte Corp. v. Pennsylvania-Dixie Cement Corp. · Houlihan v. McCall · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Zapf
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... had Mr. Parian been called to the stand ... he could have testified as to his conclusion____ Such testimony, of course, would have been subject to cross-examination. ... In this case, Mr. Parian’s letter was not a part of the official records, but was only given in response to an inquiry as to what the records showed.” Id. [236 Md.] at 310, 203 A.2d 865 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 59, Article 35, Code (1957), as construed by this Court, permits introduction of business records even though hearsay in nature, when the entry meets the tests of ‘necessity and circumstantial guaranty of trustworthiness.’ Morrow v. State, 190 Md. 559 , 59 A. 2d 325 (1948).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beane v. McMullen“ts]ummaries or compilations made from such records may be admissible, when a proper foundation has been laid by a qualified witness on the stand.” In O’Donnell v. State, 188 Md. 693, 697 , 53 A.2d 688 (1947), the Court said:”
1 later decision 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.