Smith v. Tracy’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Usery Gourley (1997), Heberer v. Shell Oil Co. (1988)
22 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Weller v. Hayes Truck Lines · Salmon Ex Rel. Salmon v. Brookshire · Lowther v. Hays · Brown v. South Joplin Lead & Zinc Mining Co. · Kendrick v. Ryus
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“difference between the actual value of the property 7 and what its value would have been if it had been as represented.”
2 later decisions 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.