New v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Malone v. Young (1938), Herthel v. Barth (1938)
32 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 Reynolds v. Stockton · Gille v. Emmons · St. Lawrence Co. v. Holt · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Moffatt · Routh v. Board of County Commissioners
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment entirely outside the issues in the case and upon a matter not submitted to the court for its determination, is a nullity; and may be vacated and set aside at any time upon motion of the defendant.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hawkins v. Smith
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.