Smith v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1993
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This term used by the grantor in a deed that he conveys by or with "general warranty," has been often held by this court to be in substance equivalent to the several special covenants in use under the common law, as that one is seized of the land sold, that he has good and perfect right to convey, that the land is free from incumbrances, that the grantee shall quietly enjoy possession, and that the grantor will warrant and defend the title against all claims of all persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Seigle v. Jasper
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.