McDonald v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 1964 · most notably State v. Sweeney (1930), Lake Company v. Molan (1964)
26 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 Hamlin v. Schulte · Baars v. Hyland · Graves v. Bonness · Grosse v. Cooley · Vaughan v. McCarthy
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary that the principal and the purchaser actually be brought face to face, but the principal must be notified that such purchaser has been found and afforded a full opportunity to make a binding contract for the sale of the land on the authorized terms.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldman v. Weisman
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.