Adams v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1916
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ That the note was the property of the insurance company, unpaid and negotiable, and having been transferred to the plaintiffs in the ordinary course of business, by indorsement before its maturity, they are entitled to recover the amount due upon it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sutton v. Beckwith
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.