Smith v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
June 1968
most recently cited
7 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Brown v. Allen · McNabb v. United States · Culombe v. Connecticut · Payne v. Arkansas
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court concludes that Joe Edward Smith willed to confess and therefore, his confession was properly admitted in evidence against him in the trial court, as was affirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas. This court having concluded that the record as presented here shows no Vital flaw’, it is also of the opinion that there has been no denial of due process in violation of the petitioner’s rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Heard
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.