8 Smith & H. 516 - Powell and Smith v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 1988
2 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From the fact that the fund in question was received by the defendant as trustee, the law implies a contract on her part that she would distribute the fund to those entitled by law. If the action of the beneficiary can be said to be sounded upon this implied contractual obligation, the applicable statute of limitation is clearly section 4472 of Shannon's Code (all editions), which permits the institution of actions on contracts within six years after accrual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Akers v. Gillentine
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.