Smith v. Snodgrass’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2009
10 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 407 (§ 207 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · Trenton Trust Co. v. Western Surety Co. · Boatmen's Bank of Jefferson County v. Community Interiors, Inc. · Jacobs v. Jacobs · Maurer v. Clark
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When it appears for the best interest of the estate, the executor or administrator, on order of the court, may effect a fair and reasonable compromise with any debtor or other obligor, or extend, renew or in any manner modify the terms of any obligation owing to the estate.... In the absence of prior authorization or subsequent approval of the court, no compromise binds the estate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““When a claim against the estate has been filed ..., the creditor and personal representative, if it appears for the best interest of the estate, may compromise the claim, whether due or not due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Seebold
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.