State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 425 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Trahan (1983), State v. Chopin (1979)
4 federal appellate · 166 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Haywood v. United States · Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Decker · United States v. Bennett · State v. Andrus
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be prepared to retry before the jury the question which he has previously presented according to law for a final determination to the judge”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moody v. People
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.