Smith v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1957
18 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 Fuller v. Sylvia · Neill v. Brackett · Clark v. McNeil · Cook v. Mosher · Lewis v. Corbin
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“genuine question of fact supported by evidence of such a substantial nature as to afford ground for reasonable expectation of a result favorable to the party requesting the framing of issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lyeth v. Hoey
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.