Smith v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1964
2 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was said by this court at the April term 1871, at this place, in the case of Pond v. Trigg, that ‘It is the settled doctrine of this court that the broad appeal vacates the judgment of the inferior court; while the appeal in error merely suspends the judgment of the inferior court, and does not annul or destroy it'. The simple appeal operates as an immediate transfer of the case to the appellate court, puts an end to the further control of the inferior court and operates to annul its judgment, which, in legal contemplation, ceases to exist after the appeal is granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A simple appeal from the chancery court to the supreme court secures a trial de novo in the supreme court, the same as if the suit had originally commenced there.””
1 later decision 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.