Smith v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Warren v. Chambers · Lintner v. Millikin · Adams v. Funk
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining this question, the intention of the parties must be considered. Written articles of copartnership may be so expressive as to leave no room for doubt. So far as these articles of agreement are concerned, we discover nothing in them evidencing an intention to form a partnership.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vette v. Giles
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.