Smith v. . Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1972 · most notably Knickerbocker Life Insurance v. Pendleton (1885), Rhodus v. Geatley (1941)
43 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was the duty of the plaintiffs to present the check at the bank, at least during the day on which they received it, and obtain either the money or a certificate, or cause the same to be protested for non-payment, and not having done so, they were chargeable with negligence and the consequent loss.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farwell v. Curtis
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.