Smith v. Gadd’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2012
14 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 Brumleve v. Cronan · Ken-Mar Airpark Inc. v. Toth Aircraft & Accessories Co. · Marcum v. Commonwealth · Martin v. Cole · Stevens v. Jas. A. Smith Lumber Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether or not he [the defendant] has so participated in the action as to indicate an intention to defend. There must be some act which would signify that the defendant is contesting liability rather than admitting it, and therefore would be likely to contest the motion for judgment if given notice. [Emphases added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kearns v. Ayer
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.