Smith v. Spence & Son Drilling Company’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
November 1966
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Elsea v. Broome Furniture Co. · Lipe v. Bradbury · Gilbert v. E. B. Law & Son, Inc. · Gerrard v. Harvey & Newman Drilling Company · Seay v. Lea County Sand and Gravel Company
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Actually, since two of the justices in the Gerrard case dissented and two specially concurred, the opinion of Mr. Justice Kiker becomes a majority opinion upon the single point upon which he and the specially concurring justices agree, namely, the award of a new trial for error in giving Instruction No. 5, as mentioned in the specially concurring opinion. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lujan
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.