Smart v. Boston Wire Stitcher Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2007
24 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 Marble Company v. Ripley · Javierre v. Central Altagracia · North Carolina Co v. Story · Ball v. Milliken · Wm. Rogers Manufacturing Co. v. Rogers
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The remedy of specific performance is not a right of complainant but rests in the sound discretion of the court guided by the principles of equity,”
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.