Ex parte Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2006 · most notably Williams v. Kaiser (1945), State Ex Rel. Williams v. Marsh (1982)
1 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Ex parte Siebold · City of St. Louis v. Roche · Ex parte Swann · Ex parte Marmaduke · City of St. Louis v. Fitz
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Human laws and human agencies have not yet arrived at such a degree of perfection as to be able without some overt act done to discern and to determine by what intent or purpose the human heart is actuated.””
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.