Parnell v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2005
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Stansel · Dailey v. Houston · Walker v. Williams · Hoffman v. Smith · Hardy v. Richards
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a defendant employs his own attorney in good faith to represent his interest or to assert his position in a controversy during a partition proceeding he should not be required to contribute to the fee of complainants' attorney.”
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.