People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 1979 · most notably People v. Holt (1944), 30 Cal. 2d 676 - People v. Eggers (1947)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 People v. Rogers · People v. Chin Hane · People v. Burkhart · People v. Mahatch · People v. Wolfgang
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leave with the law the responsibility of affixing the punishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Green · People v. Green
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.