Smith v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Bockweg v. Anderson (1993), 88 N.C. App. 1 - J & B Slurry Seal Co. v. Mid-South Aviation, Inc. (1987)
51 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 United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Parrot v. Wells, Fargo & Co. · Lutz Industries, Inc. v. Dixie Home Stores · Burgess v. Trevathan · Bruton v. . Light 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the common law rule against claim-splitting is based on the principle that all damages incurred as the result of a single wrong must be recovered in one lawsuit.”
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.