Law v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
4
states following
October 1931
most recently cited
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1931 · most notably Steeple v. Downing (1878), Dyer v. Eldridge (1894)
28 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.
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.