Driver v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
4 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2016
4 district · 19 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 Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n · Central Trust Company of Illinois v. Chicago Auditorium Association No 162 Chicago Auditorium Association · Trenton Potteries Co. v. Oliphant · Taylor Iron & Steel Co. v. Nichols · Hennessy v. Carmony
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as the courts are open the rights of parties must be determined by the existing law. It would be an intolerable situation if each court before whom the rights of individuals were litigated were permitted to determine whether relief should be granted or withheld upon its opinion as to whether the granting or withholding relief would aid or injure the government in its war activities, and it would be still more intolerable were the courts permitted to base their opinion upon written statements of officers of the army, no matter how high their rank.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Stegman“Public policy has been defined as that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good.”
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.