King v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1992 · most notably 112 Ga. App. 226 - Batson-Cook Co. v. Georgia Marble Setting Co. (1965), Golden v. National Life & Accident Insurance (1939)
1 federal appellate · 30 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 Northern Pacific R. Co. v. Adams · Charleston Western Carolina Railway Company v. Lizzie Thompson · 27 Ga. App. 106 - McGee v. Hardacre · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Moore · Gralnick v. Magid
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All personal property placed in the premises * * * shall be at the risk of the lessee or owner, and lessor shall not be liable for any damage to said personal property, or to lessee, arising from the bursting or leaking of water or steam pipes, or from any act of negligence of any cotenant or occupants of the building or of any other person whomsoever”
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.