Hernandez v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 142 · 1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1999
13 federal appellate · 4 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 Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Fort Worth Elevators Co. v. Russell · Birmingham Baptist Hospital v. Crews · Medical & Surgical Memorial Hospital v. Cauthorn · Hernandez v. Baucum
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the welfare of others constituting gross negligence for purposes of exemplary damages if it is shown that defendant exercised even”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.