Smith v. Sperling’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
380 federal appellate · 176 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,054 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Rosado v. Wyman (1970), Kamen v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc. (1991)
380 federal appellate · 176 district · 23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSmith v. Sperling (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1359
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Strawbridge v. Curtiss
Cited together with Swanson v. Traer · City of Indianapolis v. Chase Nat Bank of City of New York · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Mullen v. Torrance · Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain
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 1,054 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he jurisdiction of the Court depends upon the state of things at the time of the action brought.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to determine the issue of antagonism on the face of the pleading and by the nature of the controversy.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is antagonism whenever the management is aligned against the stockholder and defends a course of conduct which he attacks. The charge normally is cast in terms of fraud, breach of trust, or illegality”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.