Smith v. Crosby’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably Maupin v. Chaney (1942), Porter v. Henderson (1919)
4 federal appellate · 59 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In these and like cases no description of the land was given to which with safety might extrinsic evidence be applied for the purpose of locating it upon the ground. “In that class of cases extrinsic evidence could not be received, simply because there is no general yet accurate designation of the land given in the levy and deed by which extrinsic evidence must be controlled. In such cases, to admit extrinsic evidence to show the unexpressed intention of the officer would be to make that operative as a conveyance instead of the deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the general description given be accurate, and such that, following and applying it, purchasers, by the use of that diligence and care usually exercised in examining title and ascertaining the value of land they contemplate purchasing, may ascertain what particular land or interest in it is offered for sale, can it be said that such persons have not present means of knowing what is offered for sale?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pomeroy v. Pearce
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.