341 So. 2d 720 - Smith v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2007
7 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 Lay v. Phillips · Barnett v. Millis · Baldwin v. Harrelson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“etc. Neither party took the necessary steps to clarify these statements or to preserve a record as to these references. The trial court saw the indications made by the witnesses on the exhibits. We cannot say that his findings are”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kirby v. Jones
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.