Tharp v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Smith v. Sidney Moncrief Pontiac, Buick, GMC Co. (2003), Nucor Corp. v. Kilman (2004)
40 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 B & F ENGINEERING, INC. v. Cotroneo · Divelbliss v. Suchor · Byrd v. Dark · Clark v. Michael Motor Co., Inc. · Dent v. Adkisson
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.
“(1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) the judgment is void; (3) fraud, misrepresentation, or other misconduct of an adverse party; or (4) any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
2 later decisions 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.