Bennett v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 192 Ga. App. 637 - Department of Transportation v. Hillside Motors, Inc. (1989), Action Marine, Inc. v. Continental Carbon Inc. (2007)
18 federal appellate · 14 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 129 Ga. App. 530 - Radlo of Georgia, Inc. v. Little · 152 Ga. App. 841 - Bennett v. Smith
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lost revenues as damages without deducting production expenses therefrom, since the plaintiffs' evidence showed that they incurred the same expenses they would have incurred had the hens continued to lay eggs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“caused the plaintiffs' hens to stop laying eggs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.