Lee v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1960
2 federal appellate · 1 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 Southern Pac Co v. United States · Sayre's v. Harpold · Wilson v. Youst · Corrothers v. Sargent · Tracey v. Shumate
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where a court has jurisdiction oí the parties and the subject-matter in the particular case, its judgment, unless reversed or annulled in some proper proceeding, is not open to attack or impeachment by parties or privies in any collateral action or proceeding whatever.” Lee v. Smith, 54 W. Va. 98 , 46 S. E. 355 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Browning · Jarrell v. Cole
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.