Smith v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1957
8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If one of his parents be dead, the whole of the estate shall go to the surviving parent; and if both parents be dead, it shall be disposed of in the same manner as if they, or either of them, had outlived the intestate and died in the possession and ownership of the portion thus falling to their share, or to either of them, and so on through ascending, ancestors and their issue.” (Gen. Stat. 1901, §2522.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ellis““The effect of the alien land law is not only to exclude living aliens from acquiring title to lands in this state by descent, but is also to prevent the transmission of title through them under the operation of the act concerning descents and distributions before quoted. The disqualification is not alone of the living, but it is, as it were, of the dead as well.” ( 61 Kan. 613 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cramer v. McCann
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.