Boron v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably Bensalem Township School District v. Commonwealth (1988), Schuster v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (1959)
49 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 Smith v. Glen Alden Coal Co. · Shenandoah Borough v. Philadelphia · Estate of Lazarus · Denniston v. Haddock · Robinson v. Pierce
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enter such judgment or order as shall be proper in the pleadings.”
1 later decision 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.