Smith v. Lally’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2010
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.
Relationships
Relies on Engelhardt v. Bell & Howell Co. · Forsmark v. State · Witt Mechanical Contractors, Inc. v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 772
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.
“A dismissal under this rule shall be without prejudice unless otherwise stated; but if made by any party who has previously dismissed an action against the same defendant, ... including or based on the same cause, dismissal shall operate as an adjudication against him on the merits, unless otherwise ordered by the court, in the interests of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schark v. Gorski
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.