Smith v. Klebanoff’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably C & H Construction & Paving Co. v. Citizens Bank (1979), Blauwkamp v. University of New Mexico Hospital (1992)
61 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 Woods v. Brumlop · Cervantes v. Forbis · Dahl v. Turner · Buchanan v. Downing · Rekart v. Safeway Stores, Inc.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rule is [sic] this jurisdiction has long been that experts must satisfactorily explain the steps followed in reaching a conclusion, and without such an explanation the opinion is not competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... shall set forth such facts as would be admissible in evidence, and shall show affirmatively that the affiant is competent to testify to the matters stated therein... .”
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.