Smith v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 388 · 1927
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 47 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1971 · most notably Perez v. Ledesma (1971), Healy Nh v. Ratta (1934)
18 federal appellate · 47 district ·
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 Lemke v. Farmers Grain Co. · In Re Buder et al · Moore v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. · American Refining Co. v. United States
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a direct appeal to the Supreme Court may be taken from a final decree granting or denying a permanent injunction in such suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.