Smith v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
238 F. 48 · 1915
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1958
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Simon v. Southern Railway Co. · Byers v. McAuley · Farmers' Loan Trust Company v. Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company · Wabash Railroad Company v. Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University · Case of Broderick's Will
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our conclusion in this respect is that the jurisdiction of the District Court could have been properly invoked, even had the state court of ordinary not first acquired jurisdiction, but for two purposes: (a) To preserve the assets of the estate, pending administration in a state court of competent probate jurisdiction, when they were shown to be in danger of waste or dissipation; and (b) to adjudicate claims of creditors or next of kin or heirs to share in the estate, where the necessary parties were citizens of different states, and the amount involved conferred jurisdiction in the federal court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennings v. Smith
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.