Smith v. Girley’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · Emmons v. Agricultural Insurance Company · Vowell v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Co. · Thompson v. Bamburg · Placid Oil Co. v. North Central Texas Oil Co.
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.
“"Amended on the recommendation of the Louisiana State Law Institute to provide for appellate review of a judgment insofar as it did not allow or consider relief prayed for by an incidental demand."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(2) any other person while occupying an insured automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Girley
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.