Jenness v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1929
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.
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.
“"Under this statute no conveyance could be made, or sales completed, until reported to the court, and sanctioned in each case. How. Stat. § 6727. No sales were ever reported.” Jenness v. Smith, 58 Mich. 283 ( 25 N. W. 191 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunt v. Stevens
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.