Smith v. Horn’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably United States v. Gould (1962), City of Miami v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. (1920)
10 federal appellate · 53 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 Lovett v. State · Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church v. Mayor of Hoboken · Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. Worley · Price v. Stratton · Florida Southern Railway Co. v. Brown
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he title of the grantees of subdivisions abutting on such streets, in the absence of a contrary showing, extends to the center of such highway, subject to the public easement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“rule is one for construing conveyances, and must be applied to carry out, and not to frustrate the intention of the parties. Where no contrary intent appears, a conveyance to a street carries title to the center of the street, subject to the public easement, the title to the land under the street passing by construction, and not as appurtenant to the abutting land.”
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.