Smith v. QUATTLEBAUM’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1995
7 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 Norris v. Clinkscales · State v. Merriman · State v. Brock · Shillito v. City of Spartanburg · Sams v. Hoover
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of the trial judge to ascertain the qualifications of the jurors, and when the discharge of this reponsibility is thwarted by mischance, or otherwise, it is within the court’s inherent power to remedy the situation when brought to his attention, even after sine die adjournment of court, by the granting of a new trial, if in its discretion, necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Bryant
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.