Smith v. VonCannon’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 138 N.C. App. 19 - Poor v. Hill (2000), Nelson v. Freeland (1998)
42 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 Breard v. City of Alexandria La · Kelly v. International Harvester Company · Cutts v. Casey · Investment Properties of Asheville, Inc. v. Allen · Edgarton v. H. P. Welch 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[o]ne who enters upon the land of another with the consent of the possessor may, by his subsequent wrongful act in excess or abuse of his authority to enter, become liable in damages as a trespasser.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`A trespasser is a person who enters or remains upon land in the possession of another without a privilege to do so created by the possessor's consent or otherwise.'”
1 later decision 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.