Smith v. Holden’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1979
17 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 Clarke v. Ransom · Stout v. Townsend
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.
““These departures from the technical requirements of the statute are trivial. The witnesses were all in attendance upon the sick woman; if not at all times within her sight and hearing, they were within the circle and contiguity of her presence. Because a person in attendance upon another, during the execution and attestation of a writing with which they are both concerned, happens for a moment to step into an adjoining room, while some act in the process of certification is performed — an act contemplated by both of them and necessary to accomplish their mutual purpose — and, returning, finds the act done, they cannot be said to be without each other’s presence.” (p. 543. See, also, Colman v. Lindley, 115 Kan. 802 , 224 Pac. 912 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.