Walter Smith v. Dennis Condry’s Empirical Analysis
42 U.S. 28 · 1843
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2007 · most notably Canada Malting Co. v. Paterson Steamships, Ltd. (1932), Black Diamond Corporation v. Robert Stewart & Sons (1949)
16 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The collision having taken place in the port of Liverpool, the rights of the-parties depend upon the provisions of the British statutes, then in force; and if doubts exist as 'to their true construction, we must of course adopt that which is sanctioned by their own courts.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Cuzco · Galef v. United States
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.