Smith v. Strother’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1988 · most notably San Diego Land & Town Co. v. Jasper (1903), State ex rel. Hovey v. Noble (1889)
28 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 Merrill v. Sherburne · Ex parte Shrader
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“difference between the two is plain and palpable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. Truman
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.