Smith v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2011
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 McLaney v. Turner · Alabama Co. v. Norwood · Bailey v. Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company · State v. Carter · Preston v. LaSalle Apartments, Inc.
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.
““1. The verdict of the jury is not sustained by the great preponderance of the evidence.” “3. The verdict of the jury and the judgment entered thereon are contrary to the great weight and preponderance of the evidence in the case.” “10. The verdict of the jury is contrary to the instructions of the Court as contained in the following written charge .■given by the Court at the request of defendant before the jury retired: “ ‘8. Unless you are reasonably satisfied from the evidence that the birth of the Lang child was a premature birth .and that it occurred during a pregnancy which normally would have resulted in childbirth more than 10 months after the Policy Date of the policy sued on, then you cannot find for the plaintiffs in this case.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.