Smith v. Bouker’s Empirical Analysis
49 F. 954 · 1891
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1956
5 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Bouker v. Smith · Quinn v. Complete Electric Const. Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No one can escape from the burden of the obligation which rests primarily upon him by engaging for its performance with the contractor. Smith could not absolve himself from his duty as a bailee by employing Jaycox to perform any part of it. Although Jaycox was towing the scow with his tug by a contract with Smith, he was nevertheless performing Smith’s implied contract, as were also all those who were employed for the time being by Jaycox.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Winslow
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.