Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2017
18 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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Matlock · Peek v. State · Tolbert v. State · Moses 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any of the co-inhabitants has the right to permit the inspection in his own right and that the others have assumed the risk that one of their number might permit the common area to be searched.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A warrantless search of a residence may be authorized by the consent of any person who possesses common authority over or other sufficient relationship to the premises to be searched.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here was no evidence that [Jupiter] paid rent to his mother for the exclusive use of the [crawlspace] or that he had exclusive domain over the [crawlspace].”
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.