Crawford v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Iota Management Corp. v. Boulevard Investment Co. (1987), Vogel v. A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. (1990)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Boten v. Brecklein · Smith v. Tracy · Salmon Ex Rel. Salmon v. Brookshire · Dowd v. Lake Sites, Inc. · Baker v. Bickel
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is contemplated by MAI that where a general instruction of this kind is given the jury will be properly advised by the argument concerning details. If the attorneys disagree as to the elements of and the proper measure of damages any question raised should be settled by the court either at the instruction conference or by its ruling upon objections made during the course of argument.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. Wartenbee“[W]here the profits lost through fraud can be arrived at with reasonable certainty, they may properly be recovered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fairly compensate plaintiffs for their damages.”
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.