Smith v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1957
18 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“They were not allowed counsel fees in the orphans court or in the prerogative court. We are unwilling to disturb the action of these courts on this subject. We have, however, been aided in the consideration of a novel, difficult and debatable question by the arguments and briefs of appellants' counsel, as well as of respondents' counsel, and counsel fees will be allowed to both sides in this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the representatives of those dead who, if living would answer the same description,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and their legal representatives as aforesaid”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Miller
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.