Smith v. Printup’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 district · 140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably O'Gilvie v. United States (1996), Zoppo v. Homestead Insurance (1994)
2 federal appellate · 31 district · 140 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 Ross v. Moffitt · Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · Mississippi v. Turner · Basic Inc. v. Levinson · In Re the Attorney General, Stephan
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any civil action in which exemplary or punitive damages are recoverable, the trier of fact shall determine, concurrent with all other issues presented, whether such damages shall be allowed. If such damages are allowed, a separate proceeding shall be conducted by the court to determine the amount of such damages to be awarded.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'To empower; to give a right or authority to act. To endow with authority or effective legal power, warrant, or right. [Citation omitted.] To permit a thing to be done in the future. It has a mandatory effect or meaning, implying a direction to act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Trotter · State v. Johnson“'to endorse, empower, justify, or permit by or as if by some recognized or proper authority (as custom, evidence, personal right, or regulating power) . . . : SANCTION.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Trotter · State v. Johnson
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.