Smith v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1992
19 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 Dufford v. Smith · Trenton Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Donnelly · Pfefferle v. Herr · 32 N.J. Eq. 244 - Stephens v. of Howard · Willis v. Clymer
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Morton P. Robinson, the life tenant, is still living, and it cannot be said who will be his heirs-at-law or next of kin at the time of his death. He has children who, if they survive him, will be both his heirs-at-law and next of kin, but he may survive them, and, therefore, neither his heirs-at-law nor next of kin can be ascertained until his decease.”
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.