Smith v. Walcott’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Stoll v. Dow (1986), Griego v. Grieco (1977)
42 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 Cain v. Bonner · McCormick v. Brown · City of Roswell v. Holmes · Martin v. Leonard Motor-El Paso · In Re Field's Estate
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an agency may be created for the performance of any lawful act, including acts done under the authority of a statute. In order to determine that a right conferred by statute shall only be exercised personally and cannot be delegated to an agent something must be found in the Act by express enactment or necessary implication which prevents an agent from acting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cherryhomes“Causes of action founded upon contract shall be revived * * * by an admission that the debt is unpaid, as well as by a new promise to pay the same; but such admission or new promise must be in writing, signed by the party to be charged therewith.”
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.