Smith v. Race’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ This decision has doubtless been regarded and acted upon, by the courts and by the legal profession of the state, ever since its announcement, as the correct practice. And under that practice, large amounts of property have been purchased and sold in perfect good faith, believing that this court had definitively determined such a practice to be legal and binding upon the estate of the minor. On the faith of that opinion, covenants for title have no doubt been entered into, under the belief,' by grantors, that they were acting with perfect safety.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Orman v. Bowles