Smart v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1990
2 district · 6 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 Pettee v. Omega Chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho · White v. Schrafft · Couture v. Hebert
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe what the parties intended . . . was to provide a simple, practical and above all a speedy method of separating a partner for the interest of the Clinic. ... To construe paragraph 12 as the defendant argues is to force upon the plaintiffs the very delays and uncertainties which all sought originally to avoid.”
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.