Smith v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1997
2 district · 14 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 Burck v. Taylor · Mitchell v. Hughes · Casner v. Hoskins · City of Omaha v. Standard Oil Co. · Moore v. Halliday
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In such contracts as the one we have before us, the provision against assignment without the consent of the seller is made for his benefit and, like all other provisions in favor of a party, he may waive it if he chooses. Such waiver may be proved by parol and by circumstantial evidence, as well as by direct testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cross v. Campbell“intentional relinquishment of a known right,”
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.