Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1980
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.
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.
““Writs of error issue as a matter of course in criminal cases which do not involve offenses punishable by imprisonment for life. R.S. 1944, Chap. 116, Sec. 12. Nissenbaum v. State, 135 Me. 393 , 197 A. 915 . The issue raised by a writ of error must be determined on the record of the proceedings brought in question. Welch v. State, 120 Me. 294 , 113 A. 737 . It is the appropriate process for attack against a sentence imposed without authority in law, Galeo v. State 107 Me. 474 , 78 A. 867 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.