Smith v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Kunkel v. United Security Ins. Co. of New Jersey (1969), Peter Kiewit Sons' Company v. Summit Construction Company and General Insurance Company of America, Summit Construction Company and General Insurance Company of America v. Peter Kiewit Sons' Company, General Insurance Company of America v. Peter Kiewit Sons' Company (1969)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 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 Rich v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad · Jones v. Kelly · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Miller · 19 Tenn. App. 681 - Herstein v. Kemker · Bogue v. Gunderson
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile the matters complained of ... [may have] had their origin in a contract, the gist of the action is for alleged wrongful and tortious acts of defendant.”
8 later decisions 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.