Smith v. Chism’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2017
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 Woodruff v. Hundley · Griffin v. Milligan
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Smith concedes the validity of the will, admits that it should have been probated, and as shown above filed a petition to attain that end, which was before the probate court at the time the decree appealed from was rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Rice““ * * * Unlike the situation presented in the case of Griffin v. Milligan, 177 Ala. 57 , 58 So. 257 , there are adversary parties to the instant appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Rice
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.