Shad v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 1962 · most notably 137 So. 2d 201 - Orange Brevard Plumbing & Heating Co. v. La Croix (1962), Hutchinson v. Stone (1920)
43 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 McGill v. Chappelle · Mock v. Thompson · Thomas v. Craft · Armour & Co. v. Hulvey · Bank of Jennings v. Jennings
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the findings and conclusions of a chancellor, where the evidence is not taken before him but before a master or examiner, by reason whereof he is not afforded an opportunity of seeing and hearing the witnesses, are not entitled to the same weight as a verdict of a jury, yet even in that case they should not be disturbed by an appellate court, unless they are clearly shown to be erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. Jessup
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.