Smith v. Lorillard, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
945 F.2d 745 · 1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Shaffer v. Heitner · Harris v. Balk · Felty v. Graves-Humphreys Co. · National Exchange Bank v. Wiley · Ward v. Kolman Manufacturing Company
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.
“It is Smith’s position that the district court below [i.e., for the District of North Carolina], before according full faith and credit to the order of garnishment of the Kentucky court, U.S. Const, art. IV, § 1, had to satisfy itself that the Kentucky court’s exercise of garnishment over Smith’s wages, because Smith had moved to another state, was a proper assertion of in rem jurisdiction under Shaffer .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.