Smith Case’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 district · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably American Universal Insurance v. DelGreco (1987), Pugar v. Greco (1978)
2 district · 126 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Capital Traction Co. v. Hof · Watson Appeal · Premier Cereal & Beverage Co. v. Pennsylvania Alcohol Permit Board · Haines v. Levin · North Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Snowden
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof remain inviolate."”
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.