Smith v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 688 · 1976
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Gregory v. Mitchell (1981), Browder v. Tipton (1980)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Pierson v. Ray · Griffin v. Breckenridge · McCray v. Maryland · William C. Cameron v. John C. Brock · Regina Lee Azar v. James R. Conley
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court was correct in its holding that a stockholder cannot maintain an action under the Civil Rights Act for damages suffered by a corporation in which he owns shares.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gregory v. Mitchell
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.