Switzer v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Ex Parte Coffee (1959), Margaret O'BOyle v. John R. Bevil, Jr. (1958)
5 federal appellate · 46 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 Martin v. Burns, Walker Co. · Treadway v. Eastburn · Chapman v. Kellogg · Leachman v. Capps and Canty · 54 Tex. Civ. App. 96 - Gibbs v. Scales
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is more than a mere venue statute; it has to do with jurisdiction. Its purpose is not the protection of the citizen in his ordinary right to be sued in the county of his domicile, but rather it is a law of comity, for the protection of the dignity of our courts. Orderly procedure and proper respect for the courts will require that such attacks .upon their judgments should be made in the court rendering such judgment, rather than in other courts indiscriminately.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Friedrich v. Brand““Writs of injunction granted to stay proceedings in a suit, or execution on a judgment, shall be returnable to and tried in the court where such suit is pending, or such judgment was rendered. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Friedrich v. Brand““[I]f the judgment was void, rather than voidable, its validity could be questioned in any court in any proceeding whenever a right was asserted under it.””
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.