Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.2d 976 · 1938
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1960
8 federal appellate · 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 New Orleans Co v. Harris · Johnson v. U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. · Atchison Ry Co v. Toops · Delaware Co v. Koske · Haddix v. O'Brien
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine is not applicable in any case unless, by a process of probable reasoning, the facts and circum stances ■ point out' the -wrongdoer*, the tortious character, of his act,:and ex-, elude other probable causes of the injury. The doctrine is not proof and. does not supply: a' want of proof. It. is a rule of interpretation' by- which evidence of facts is made to.speak the logical- 'Conclusions naturally • flowing therefrom.” • ■ " " ■ . -<■ >.”
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.