State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 89 Conn. App. 71 - State v. Orellana (2005), State v. Boyd (2010)
59 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 Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“connected with criminal activity or [would] assist in a particular apprehension or conviction.”
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.