Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1982
17 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 Gaiennie v. Cooperative Produce Co. · 80 So. 2d 206 - Reeves v. State · 36 So. 2d 750 - Rea v. Dow Motor Co. · Dowden v. State ex rel. Department of Highways · 50 So. 2d 31 - Rosier v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a motorist has no legal duty to anticipate an unusual hazard where there is no adequate warning, but has the right to presume the highway is safe for usual and ordinary traffic, even at night”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“when the hazard is unusual in nature and not readily discernible, the drivers running into same have not been held guilty of contributory negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the ordinary hazards which may be expected on a road”
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.