Melton v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
6
states following
February 1936
most recently cited
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1936
22 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 Ringo v. Richardson · Douthitt v. Stinson · Kennedy v. Estate of Kennedy · Street v. Goss · Rice v. Bunce
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.