21 Ala. App. 70 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 1928
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Bush · Lee v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the manifest purpose of this provision to accord to the citizen security against the arbitrary action of those in authority, and to place him under the protection of the ‘law of the land,’ which is synonymous with the expression ‘due process of law.’ ””
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.