Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Brown v. Edwards (1984), 440 So. 2d 547 - Penick v. State (1983)
25 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 Lewis v. State · Milton v. City of McComb
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After an officer has witnessed a misdemeanor, it is his duty to then and there arrest the offender.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If, however, the officer witnesses the commission of an offense and does not arrest the offender, but departs on other business, or for other purposes, and afterwards returns, he cannot arrest the offender without a warrant; for then the reasons for allowing the arrest to be made without a warrant have disappeared.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Warren“The legislature, by [§] 2470, Mississippi Code of 1942, extended the authority to make arrests without a warrant to indictable offenses committed or attempted in the presence of the officer whether or not a breach of peace is involved.”
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.