In re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2007 · most notably Solesbee v. Balkcom (1950), Rector v. Bryant, Attorney General of Arkansas, Et Al. (1991)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 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 Nobles v. State of Georgia · State v. Helm · Ferguson v. Martineau · State v. Nordstrom · Davidson v. Commonwealth
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from the defects of his faculties, sufficient intelligence to understand the nature of the proceedings against him, what he was tried for, the purpose of his punishment, the impending fate which awaits him, a sufficient understanding to know any fact which might exist which would make his punishment unjust or unlawful, and the intelligence requisite to convey such information to his attorneys or the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Solesbee v. Balkcom“Another cause of regular reprieve is, if the offender become non compos ... if after judgment, he shall not be ordered for execution: for ‘furiosus solo furore punitur,’ and the law knows not but he might have offered some reason, if in his senses, to have stayed these respective proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Solesbee v. Balkcom““All the courts hold, so far as we are advised, that the common law forbids the trial, sentencing, or execution of an insane person for a crime while he continues in that state. Many of the states have statutes to that effect. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Folk
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.