Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1951
15 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 French v. . Carhart · Flagg v. Eames · Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Co. v. Hewett · McConnell v. Rathbun · Nightingale and Another, Assignees v. Hidden and Others
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled by numerous cases, that when the habendum is repugnant and contrary to the granting clause, it is void. It can only affect the grant when it can be construed as consistent with the premises. It cannot divest the grantee of the legal estate already granted him in the premises, nor can the habendum frustrate a grant complete before, or abridge or lessen the estate granted.” Smith v. Smith, 71 Mich. 640 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Fisher““ ‘It is a cardinal rule in the construction of contracts that the intention of the parties is to be inquired into, and, if not forbidden by law, is to be effectuated. Too much regard is not to be had to the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The object to be arrived at by courts in construing deeds or other contracts is to ascertain clearly the intention of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. Kator
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.