Smith v. Burdett’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1980
2 federal appellate · 4 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 54 Tex. Civ. App. 269 - Gold v. Campbell · Boynton v. Tidwell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Normally, every one is entitled to his liberty, and when another, whether he be an officer or layman, interferes with such liberty and is called to account therefor, he may prove his authority or suffer the consequences. Consequently, the rule seems to be that the burden is on the one making the arrest or causing same to be made to prove the authority to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitlock v. Boyer
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.