Smith v. Gautreau’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2018
4 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 Gleason v. Chain Service Restaurant · 191 So. 2d 692 - Stevens v. Patterson Menhaden Corporation · 328 So. 2d 755 - Mauterer v. Tillery · 342 F. Supp. 678 - Hare v. Family Publications Service, Inc. · 409 F. Supp. 326 - Town of East Troy v. Soo Line Railroad Company
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The court on motion of a party or on its own motion may at any time and after a hearing order stricken from any pleading any insufficient demand or defense or any redundant, immaterial, impertinent or scandalous matter."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Cole v. Cole“can have no possible bearing upon the subject matter of the litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Cole
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.