Smith v. . Kidd’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently November 1978 · most notably Corrigan v. . Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1920), Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Talbot (1887)
7 federal appellate · 68 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no direct proof of authority from the plaintiff to George to collect the principal of the mortgages in controversy, or of any general authority to collect the principal of her mortgages. Such authority was inferred by the court from the course of dealing between the plaintiff and George subsequent to the payment in question, and from her acceptance of securities from him in 1874, about the time of his absconding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wales v. Mower
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.