Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2016
5 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 RAINEY v. Horn · City of Greenville v. Laury · Mauney v. Gulf Refining Co. · DeLaughter v. Womack · Billups Petroleum Co. v. Entrekin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person charged with negligence in that he should have anticipated the probability of an injury from an act done by him is not bound to a prevision or anticipation which would include an unusual, improbable or extraordinary occurrence, although such happening is within range of possibilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This is a very unfortunate and very sad and tragic incident, and the sympathy of everybody goes out to this little family which has [had to deal with this]. But sympathy is not a motivating influence or a proper ingredient of a decision in any case.”
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.