Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Stevenson v. State (1980), 162 Ind. App. 186 - Mayes v. State (1974)
3 federal appellate · 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 Farmer v. State · Loftis v. State · Jenkins v. Parkhill · Rexroat v. State · Knotts 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has recently reaffirmed the principle that the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures does not apply to searches conducted by private citizens when they are not acting as agents of police authorities. See Gunter v. State (1971), [257] Ind. [646], 275 N.E.2d 810 .” See, also, Zupp v. State (1972), 258 Ind. 625 , 283 N.E.2d 540 .”
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.