59 Ind. App. 55 - Smith v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 1978 · most notably 266 F. Supp. 987 - McClish v. Niagara MacHine & Tool Works (1967), Jackson v. Record, Admr. (1937)
41 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 Board of Commissioners v. Pearson · Musser v. State · Sessions v. Johnson · Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Co. v. Henby · City of Valparaiso v. Moffitt
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘We, the jury, find for the plaintiff, Warren W. Graves, against the defendants Mortimer Smith, Levi Bowser, and we assess plaintiff’s damages at one thousand dollars.’ ””
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.