Smith v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bradley v. J. F. Batte & Sons of Richmond, Inc. · Byrd v. Hall · International Longshoremen's Ass'n v. Allied International, Inc. · Union Carbide Corp. v. Huddleston · Street v. National Broadcasting 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the privilege to apply, the report must be 'a fair and accurate summation of the proceeding.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“apprised of what takes place in the proceedings without having been present,”
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.