Smith v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1900
7 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“question are with the Massachusetts cases.. - The plaintiff had a right to expect that the defendant would perform his duty, and when he came to take judgment for his debt, that he would credit the payment which had been made. To hold .that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Binck v. Wood
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.