Smith v. Whittlesey’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Murray v. Krenz (1920), Murray Ex Rel. Murray v. Pearson Appliance Store (1952)
27 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 Lisbon v. Lyman · Tomlinson v. Town of Derby · Pratt v. Boston Heel & Leather Co. · Braunsdorf v. Fellner · Bristol Manufacturing Co. v. Gridley
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not permitted to resort to mere conjecture”
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.