Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1951
6 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 Taylor v. Commonwealth
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a large city such description might be inadequate, but in a city the size of Owensboro, where the officers are presumably acquainted with all the places of business and their occupants, and where it is altogether improbable that more than one man named Paul Smith would be occupying a one-story dwelling house and barber shop combined, near a blacksmith shop, and corresponding to No. 707, such description is reasonably sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That one-story dwelling house, No. 707, and barber shop combined near a blacksmith shop in the city of Owensboro, Daviess county, Kentucky, and other places adjacent thereto and occupied by Paul Smith.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.