Smith v. State of Texas’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 630 · 1914
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 19 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same (1925), Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia (1976)
12 federal appellate · 19 district · 84 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In so far as a man is deprived of the right to labor, his liberty is restricted, his capacity to earn wages and acquire property is lessened, and he is denied the protection which the law affords those who are permitted to work. Liberty means more than freedom from servitude, and the constitutional guaranty is an assurance that the citizen shall be protected in the right to use his powers of mind and body in any lawful calling.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all men are entitled to the equal protection of the law in their right to work for the support of themselves and families.”
2 later decisions 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.