Smith v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 1999 · most notably 32 Cal. 2d 265 - Sontheimer v. Pierce (1948), Holden v. First National Bank & Trust Co. (1940)
36 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 In Re the Accounting of Leask · Munie v. Gruenewald · Woodcock · People ex rel. Graham v. Inglis · Board of Education v. Morgan
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When provision is made in a will for the child of some person other than the testator, an adopted child is not included unless there is language in the will or circumstances surrounding the testator at the time he made the will which make it clear that the adopted child was intended to be included.”
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.