Smith v. Brennan’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1932
9 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 Grimes v. Van Vechten · Chamberlain v. Dow
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The carrier could not accept the goods, within the statute of frauds, under the previous ruling of this court. It is not shown that the Merchants’ Despatch had any independent or separate authority to act for Walsh, and accept the goods when delivered to it in his behalf. And if the contract of sale was void, as it unquestionably was, it could furnish no authority to a third party, the carrier, to ratify it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spedding v. Griggs
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.