Smith v. Pettis County’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably 23 Cal. 2d 719 - Maguire v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society (1944), City of Joplin v. Jasper County (1942)
2 federal appellate · 51 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 State ex inf. Major ex rel. Sikes v. Williams · Elsas v. Montgomery Elevator Co. · County of Nodaway v. Kidder · Smith v. Holdoway Construction Co. · State Ex Rel. Terry v. Yarrell
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Missouri state lottery”). . That "[n]othing in the language of the governing statutes inhibits participation in a multi-state lottery” proves nothing. "An implication must be fair and clear to become part of a statute.”
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.