Smith v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.2d 799 · 1973
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2004 · most notably Walker v. Armco Steel Corp. (1980), Corke v. Sameiet M. S. Song (1978)
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1404
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at his dwelling house or usual place of abode with some person of suitable age and discretion then residing therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.