Smith v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 2005
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Foremost Ins. Co. v. Parham · Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. Abston · Christopher v. Shockley · Liberty Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Parker · Jay Pontiac GMC Truck Mitsubishi, Inc. v. Payne
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he limitations period [for a fraudulent-suppression claim] begins to run when a plaintiff becomes privy to facts that would provoke inquiry in the mind of a person of reasonable prudence and that (if followed up) would have led to the discovery of the fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knew of facts that would have put a reasonable person on notice”
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.