Smith v. Crouse’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
766 federal appellate · 55 district · 195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,249 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Griffin v. California (1965), United States v. Ventresca (1965)
766 federal appellate · 55 district · 195 state decisions — followed in 33 states
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 Douglas v. People of State of California · Hill v. New York
Cited together with Fisher v. United States · Etchieson v. Texas · Santana v. United States · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Lessig v. Tidewater Oil Co.
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 1,249 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is reversed. Douglas v. People of State of California, 372 U.S. 353 , 83 S.Ct. 814 , 9 L.Ed.2d 811 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Donnell v. Swenson
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.