Smithwick v. Crutchfield’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably 92 N.C. App. 161 - Iverson v. TM One, Inc. (1988), Smithwick v. Crutchfield (1987)
26 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 Calloway v. Ford Motor Company · Matter of Edens · 49 N.C. App. 631 - Carr v. Great Lakes Carbon Corp. · Snyder v. Kenan Oil Co. · Alltop v. JC PENNEY COMPANY, INC.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“doctrine or res judicata, as Plaintiffs assert, but, rather, the well established rule that”
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.