Smith v. Leedy’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1992
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Memphis Street Railway Co. v. Flood · Chicago, M. G.R. Co. v. Wheeler · Taylor v. Aulton · Cantrell v. State · Nichols v. Lebanon & Hartsville Turnpike Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every intendment is in favor of the sufficiency and validity of proceedings before general sessions courts, when brought in question, either directly or collaterally, in any of the courts, where it appears on the face of the proceedings that the general sessions court had jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cottrell
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.