Smith v. McGregor’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Flippo v. F & L LAND CO. (1991), 39 Va. App. 1 - Pro Football Inc. v. Paul (2002)
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Dominick v. Vassar · First National Bank of Martinsville v. Cobler · Morotock Insurance v. Fostoria Novelty Co. · Rucker v. Peaco · Scott v. Sutherland
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘A condition precedent calls for the performance of some act, or the happening of some event after the terms of the contract have been agreed upon, before the contract shall take effect.'”
3 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.