State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re Marriage of Skillen · Clark v. Olson · Montana Beer Retailers Protective Ass'n v. State Board of Equalization · State Ex Rel. Durland v. Board of County Commissioners
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in substance contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted or to omit what has been inserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. RB" J" C.
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.