Smith v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.2d 341 · 1938
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1971
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Campbell v. St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co. · Laubach v. Colley · Challinor v. Axton · Nesbit v. Crosby · Harris v. United States
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We know of no case in which, without a statute, a merely formal owner of a car has been held liable in circumstances like these. (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spindle v. Reid
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.