Smith v. Grubb’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Wayne Building & Loan Co. v. Yarborough (1967), 97 Ill. 2d 187 - Provident Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Realty Centre, Ltd. (1983)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. West · Triger v. Carter Oil Co. · Texas Company v. O'Meara · Reed v. Eastin · Clark v. Leavitt
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One having notice of facts which would put a prudent man on inquiry is chargeable with knowledge of other facts he might have discovered by diligent inquiry. Whatever is notice enough to excite the attention of a prudent man and put him on his guard is notice of everything to which such inquiry might have led and every unusual circumstance is a ground of suspicion and demands investigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The circumstances attending the transaction, the situation of the parties, the objects which they had in mind, as shown by the deed, as well as those they did not have in mind and could not attain, merit consideration in construing deeds.””
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.