Smith v. Normart’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Reed v. Real Detective Publishing Co. (1945), Porter v. Porter (1966)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Laura Wheeler v. William Sohmer · Wilkins v. Ellett · Iowa v. Slimmer · In Re Proving the Will of Horton
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Both having probated the will, its legality as to the personal estate elsewhere is doubly established, but the proponents of the will for probate in the Illinois court and the representative appointed thereunder are not bound on the existence of the domicile as found by the Arizona court, nor are the Arizona proponents and personal representative bound by the findings of the Illinois court in that respect.” (Citing Beale’s Conflict of Laws, Vol. 3, Sec. 469.1 and cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“feeling that by so doing uniformity of decision would be more nearly effected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butcher v. Maffeo
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.