Smith v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 1977 · most notably Williams v. Safety Casualty Co. (1937), Associated Oil Co. v. Hart (1925)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Silliman v. Gano · Blinn v. McDonald · Buzar v. First National Bank of Greenville · Baker v. Shafter · Combes v. Stringer
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A prayer for general relief will not authorize a judgment inconsistent with the specific relief sought.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“at the termination of the rights given litigants by law.”
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.