Smith v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Lance v. Smith (1936), 156 So. 2d 683 - Brown v. Hutch (1963)
27 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 Gulf Red Cedar Co. v. Crenshaw · Parken v. Safford · Hart v. Bostwick · Pratt v. Carns · First National Bank v. Hacoda Mercantile Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was, under the circumstances, equivalent to a manual delivery. The intent to deliver the deed was made plain. An hour later he was dead. And in another hour or so, his son arrived, and the box was delivered to him, and it contained the deed. [ 91 Fla. at 1000 , 108 So. at 893 .]”
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.