Smith v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Stafford v. Stafford (1987), Clardy Manufacturing Company v. Marine Midland Business Loans Inc L (1996)
6 federal appellate · 37 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 Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis · Fambrough v. Wagley · The United States v. The State Bank of North Carolina · Great American Reserve Insurance Co. v. Britton · Trevino v. American National Insurance
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 is established law in Texas now that in a case where there is a question as to what would constitute a reasonable attorney’s fee, such question is one of fact to be determined by the fact finder in the case, and in order to have a determination of such fact is (sic) must be supported by evidence. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Body“is not one of the favored rules of construction. Indeed, it is said that it is to be resorted to only when the other rules fail.”
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.