Smoot v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · In Re the Marriage of Lafferty · Barron v. Barron · 229 Mo. App. 1226 - Rickey v. New York Life Insurance · Stone v. Farmington Aviation Corp.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not read into a contract words which the contract does not contain,”
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.