Smith v. Bolin’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1990
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Gulbenkian v. Penn · Fitz-Gerald v. Hull · Cochran v. Wool Growers Central Storage Co. · Johnson v. Peckham · Trice v. Comstock
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alleged that Bolin acquired knowledge from the operations on the Howard land leases, and/or during the period when he was in fiduciary relationship with them, which he used to re-acquire that same property and other nearby properties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Fuqua · Palmer v. Fuqua“'buying, selling, trading, exchanging, developing, equipping, and producing oil, gas, mining leases, real estate, royalties, and all other minerals and other property and interest therein'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Fuqua · Palmer v. Fuqua“The fiduciary duties they owed one another would be no broader than the activities encompassed by their agreements relating thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Fuqua · Palmer v. Fuqua
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.