Smith v. Whitman’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably 193 N.J. Super. 271 - Marley v. Palmyra Bor. (1983), Boston Trading Group, Inc. v. Burnazos (1987)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 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 Monmouth Lumber Co. v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America · Marbury v. Brooks · 117 N.J. Eq. 131 - Hersh v. Levinson Bros., Inc. · Merchants Bank v. Page · Weeks v. Hill
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“honesty of purpose and integrity of conduct with respect to a given subject.”
2 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.