Smith v. Boone’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1992
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * but if there is a discrepancy between the map and the survey (actually made on the ground) the survey must prevail, if the position of the points and lines established by the survey can be proved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. Hitchcock
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.