Smith v. . Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
2
states following
January 1939
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1939 · most notably Fayerweather v. Ritch (1904), Sanders v. . Soutter (1891)
3 federal appellate · 21 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.
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.