Smith v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1961
7 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 Doe ex dem. Jones v. Burford
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our boards of supervisors are partly legislative and partly judicial in their character. They are judicial as to their times of meeting, that is to say, their terms are fixed by law, duration limited, and the mode of calling special terms, carefully prescribed by statute. . . . They have no more power to adjourn by resolution or order from one term to a day intermediate between the day of adjournment and their next regular meeting, than the Supreme, the circuit, or the chancery courts have.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hunter v. Bennett
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.