People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2022
21 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 Terry v. Ohio · Graham v. Connor · Michigan v. Long · Texas v. Brown · Stone v. People
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“justified when the cireumstances indicate that such force constitutes a reasonable precaution for the protection and safety of the investigating officers.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an articulable and specific basis in fact”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such a limited intrusion is viewed as a reasonably effective method of neutralizing the risk of physical harm confronting the officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Brant
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.