Smith v. Tilton’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 101st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · City of Boerne v. Flores · City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · United States v. Ballard · Montgomery v. Kennedy
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the representation is made by a defendant in the course of his business, or in a transaction in which he has a pecuniary interest; (2) the defendant supplies “false information” for the guidance of others in their business; (3) the defendant did not exercise reasonable care or competence in obtaining or communicating the information; and (4) the plaintiff suffers pecuniary loss by justifiably relying on the representation.”
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.