State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1974
8 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 State v. Byrud · State v. Billings · City of Duluth v. Orr
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute authorizes a certification of criminal cases to this court in two instances only: (1) Where important or doubtful questions arise upon a demurrer or special plea to an indictment; and (2) where such questions arise during the trial. State v. Byrud, 23 Minn. 29 . In the first case mentioned the questions may be certified to this court before trial, but in the second only after trial and conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bristol
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.