Smith v. Barclay’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1931
16 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 North Star Boot & Shoe Co. v. Ladd · Donnelly v. O'Connor · McMahon v. Merrick
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It can hardly be necessary to add that, if the case was triable by the court, if, from the developments on the trial, the judge changed his mind, and concluded that it was inexpedient to submit any specific questions to a jury, there was no error in discharging the jury and trying the case himself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Murray
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.