Swift v. Smith, Dixon & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1956 · most notably Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. v. Doughton (1926), State Trust & Savings Bank v. Hermosa Land & Cattle Co. (1925)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
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.