Smith v. JBJ LTD.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2009
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Guy Martin Buick, Inc. v. Colorado Springs Nat. Bank · Fox v. Martens · Briggs v. Cornwell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen such interest is so claimed, it is the duty of the court in entering judgment for the plaintiff ... to add to the amount of damages assessed by the verdict of the jury ... interest on such amount....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“interpret[ed] this statute to mean that if interest is claimed from the date the action accrued, the trial court must calculate interest from that date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is lawful for the plaintiff in the complaint to claim interest on the damages claimed from the date the action accrued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.