7 E.H. Smith 214 - Youmans v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Burns v. Reed (1991), Buckley v. Fitzsimmons (1993)
13 federal appellate · 85 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hastings v. Lusk · Marsh v. . Ellsworth · Ring v. Wheeler · Warner v. Paine · Stape v. . People of the State of New York
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He had the right, by personal interviews, .to ask the various-persons, who were expected to be witnesses in favor of either side upon the question of character, how they would answer the questions under consideration, or to send an agent to make the same inquiry, with a copy of the list as a memorandum. While we do not commend the practice, we cannot say that it is unlawful.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the privilege that protected [the attorney] also protected his agents and employees in whatever they did at his request that he could have lawfully done himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hawkins v. Harris“so needlessly defamatory as to warrant the inference of express malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Maxwell
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.