Smith v. Wiget’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1968 · most notably Weeks v. Roberts (1968), Weeks v. Roberts (1968)
36 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 Rosefield Packing Co. v. Superior Court · 125 Cal. App. 419 - Steinbauer v. Bondesen · 70 Cal. App. 2d 224 - Breakstone v. Giannini · Meier v. Superior Court · 46 Cal. App. 2d 648 - Elmhurst Packers, Inc. v. Superior Court
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And at page 595: “The appellant also contends that upon the hearing of the motion to dismiss he was denied a continuance, and this denial he claims constituted an abuse of discretion. There is no record to show the basis for the claimed continuance and in such circumstances this claim of error cannot be considered. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. Cobb“Every intendment and presumption not inconsistent with the record must be indulged in to support the action of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weeks v. Roberts“These rules apply with particular force where discretion is vested in the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.