Smith v. . Coe’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1962 · most notably A. & S. Henry & Co. v. Talcott (1903), Hoffman v. American Mills Co. (1923)
1 federal appellate · 26 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSmith v. Coe
Relationships
Relies on 3 E.H. Smith 137 - Carleton v. . Lombard, Ayres Co. · Marston v. . Swett · Gurney v. Atlantic & Great Western Railway Co. · Fleischmann v. . Stern · Bierman v. . City Mills Co.
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.
““The allegations of a complaint are controverted or put in issue only by a general or specific denial. A material fact alleged is not controverted or put in issue by a statement inconsistent with the facts alleged, or from which a general denial may be implied or inferred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kraus v. Agnew
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.