Smith v. Dwight’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1974
2 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Washington Timber & Loan Co. v. Smith · Reynolds v. Lincoln · Townsend Savings Bank v. Todd · Bremer & Co. v. Fleckenstein & Mayer · Roth v. Gabbert
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. That the real estate conveyed was subject to taxation at the time the same was assessed in the time and manner required by law. “2. That the taxes or assessments were regularly levied, and were not paid at any time before the issuance of the deed. “3. That the real estate conveyed had not been redeemed from the sale at the date of the deed. “4. That the real estate was duly sold for taxes, assessments, penalties, and costs as stated in the deed. “5. That the grantee in the deed was the purchaser or assignee of the purchaser. “6. That the sale and all antecedent proceedings were conducted in the manner required by law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guthrie v. Haun““All objection of this kind should have been made by plaintiff in the foreclosure suit, and he is now precluded from making the same by virtue of Section 3710, L. O. L.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.