Smith v. Westerfield’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 1992 · most notably 5 Cal. 2d 35 - Texas Co. v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n (1935), Salmon v. Rathjens (1907)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 77 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 Patterson v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. · Scholes v. Ackerland
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.