Smith v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
308 F.2d 15 · 1962
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Kendall v. Hoover Co. (1984), Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc. (1992)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Saenz v. Kenedy · Robert Rowland Hargraves, Jr. v. Leslie S. Bowden, Etc. · 94 F. Supp. 289 - In re Riedner
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some obedience to the rules of court; and some respect [for] the convenience and rights of other counsel, litigants, and the court itself”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[counsel] ... has made ... no showing of inadvertence, excusable neglect, mistake, surprise nor any one or more of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when they will file those papers required in a lawsuit”
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.