De Witt v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably Hooven, Owens & Rentschler, Co. v. John Featherstone's Sons (1901), Union Lumber Co. v. Simon (1907)
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Matlack v. Lare · Bunce v. Beck
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not necessary that the description should be either full or precise”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chance v. Franke“a true description of the property, or so near as to identify the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chance v. Franke
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.