Duncan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1996
16 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 State of Virginia v. State of Tennessee · Bender v. Pennsylvania Co. · Bowman v. Frost, Commissioner of Welfare · Clay v. Dixie Fire Insurance
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he practical difficulties involved in securing of support by one person from a person residing in another state constitute a valid basis for granting free legal representation in such cases and denying it in cases where both persons are residents of the same state. Besides, in the final analysis, the free legal representation is for the benefit of the public as a whole, and not of the particular dependent person.” (Duncan v. Smith (Ky. 1953), 262 S.W. 2d 373, 378 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“upon the approval of any other authority than the General Assembly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Carter
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.