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← 214 MDAPP 195 - Smith v. State

Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Whren v. United States · United States v. Sharpe · United States v. McDonald · State v. Williams · Lewis 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A police-initiated traffic stop constitutes a seizure within the confines of the Fourth Amendment.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “made applicable against the States through the Fourteenth Amendment.”
    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.