Smith v. Idaho’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
November 1974
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3182
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Biddinger v. Commissioner of Police · Smith 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. Shapp
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.