Smith v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1979
3 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 Clem Lumber Co. v. Elliott Lumber Co. · Bogart v. Cowboy State Bank & Trust Co. · Johnson v. Flint · Tyler v. Thomas
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 789, T.R.C.P., provides: “Under such plea of ‘not guilty’ the defendant may give in evidence any lawful defense to the action except the defense of limitations, which shall be specially pleaded.” Rule 788 merely provides that the defendant may file a plea of not guilty. The rule operates in the interest of the defendant, since it relieves him from pleading specially his various defenses, and under such plea he is given the right to give in evidence any lawful defense except the defense of limitations which must be pled specially. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Geiser v. Lawson
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.