Smith v. Milham’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2013
9 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 R. E. L. McCaskill Co. v. Dekle · Tilghman Cypress Co. v. John R. Young 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'“While the court may, upon motion of the complainant, dismiss an equity cause without prejudice at any time when the dismissal would not materially prejudice the rights of the defendant, yet if the defendant has entitled himself to affirmative relief or to a hearing and disposition of the case on the merits, or has acquired some substantial right in the cause or will be seriously prejudiced by a dismissal, or where unnecessary and prolonged litigation is apparent or an agreement will be violated, or where it is inequitable, the cause will not be dismissed without prejudice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaw v. Morrison
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.