Smoot v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1960
6 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 Kinney v. White · Patton v. Darden · Hale v. Cox · Webb & Aigner v. Darrow · Stanley v. Beck
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The orderly practice to be pursued in equity for an accounting is first to ascertain and decree that complainant is entitled to an accounting and then order a reference to state the account. 1 C.J.S. Accounting § 40, subsecs, a, b, and c, p. 680 et seq. The court in its discretion can dispense with the reference and proceed to state the account himself, after ascertaining that complainant is entitled to an accounting. People’s Sav. Bank of Tallassee v. Union Bank & Trust Co., 204 Ala. 406 , 85 So. 694 ; Hale v. Cox, 240 Ala. 622 , 200 So. 772 ; Stanley v. Beck, 242 Ala. 574 , 7 So.2d 276 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Cunningham
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.