Smith v. Floyd County’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Langley v. City Council (1903), Bowers v. Fulton County (1966)
67 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 Bowman v. Chicago N W Ry Co · Chicago v. Taylor · City of Atlanta v. Green · Homer v. Brown · Manhattan Life Ins Co v. Broughton
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Code, in § 3446 [now § 3-508], expressly recognizes the right of a plaintiff to recommence his suit on the payment of costs, after he has been nonsuited in a previous action.”
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.