Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1993 · most notably Hentschel v. Smith (1967), Carlson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. (1929)
4 district · 29 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States · Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. · Southern Pac Co v. United States · Embry v. Palmer
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the final determination of the rights of the parties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnstone v. Sanborn
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.