Pritchard v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.2d 153 · 1961
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Moor v. County of Alameda (1973), Sullivan v. Murphy (1973)
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · United States v. Standard Oil Co. · Just v. Chambers · The Lottawanna
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that this action survived the death of the defendant Smith and that the court erred in determining that the action abated and in denying the motion for the substitution of Smith's administrator as defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Downie v. Pritchard“deficient in the provisions necessary to furnish suitable remedies and punish offenses against”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brazier v. Cherry“with directions to reinstate the action and to substitute the administrator as defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Downie v. Pritchard
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.