Smith v. Sherry’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1977 · most notably Carey v. Cagney (1902), Cullen v. Western Mortgage & Warranty Title Co. (1913)
34 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 Pepper v. O'Dowd
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On motion of Carl Schmidt the board of supervisors do order and determine that town 28, range 14, be attached to the town of Herman for town purposes, and that town 28, range 13, be attached to the town of Seneca for town purposes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Austrian v. Guy
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.