Smalls v. Weed’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Burns v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (1989), Higgins v. State (1992)
24 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 Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. · Busby v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Major v. National Indemnity Co. · Crowder v. Carroll
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No court of this State shall have jurisdiction to entertain, hear or determine any complaint praying for the dissolution, liquidation, rehabilitation, sequestration, conservation or receivership of any insurer, or praying for an injunction or restraining order or other relief preliminary to, incidental to or relating to such proceedings other than in accordance with this article.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no delinquency proceedings shall be commenced or entertained except as provided for [by the relevant statute].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“contemplates the end of corporate existence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.