Ex Parte Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1969 · most notably State Ex Rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc. v. Simpson (1935), Louis K. Liggett Co. v. Amos (1932)
33 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 Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Welton v. The State of Missouri · Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Olsen U S · Ward v. Maryland · Emert v. State of Missouri
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But if an obnoxious section is of such import that the other sections without it are incomplete, or would cause results not contemplated or desired by the legislative body which enacted it, then the entire statute or ordinance must be held inoperative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.