Smith v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
246 U.S. 388 · 1918
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Mine Safety Appliances Co. v. Forrestal (1945), Sims v. United States (1959)
64 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSmith v. Jackson (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Benedict v. United States · Smith v. Jackson
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are of opinion that it is obvious on the face of the statement of the case that the auditor had no power to refuse to carry out the law, and that any doubt which he might have had should have been subordinated, first, to the ruling of the Attorney General, and second, beyond all possible question, to the judgments of the courts below.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Carter
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.