Smith v. Merritt’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 4th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation · McConnell v. Southside Independent School District · El Chico Corp. v. Poole · Graff v. Beard
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“protect[] ... the welfare, health, peace, temperance, and safety of the people of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Merritt
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.