Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 1992 · most notably 459 So. 2d 836 - Home Indem. Co. v. Anders (1984), Howard v. Pike (1973)
42 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 Ex Parte Alabama Brokerage Co. · 18 Ala. App. 495 - Alabama Brokerage Co. v. Boston · Valenzuela v. Sellers · Bronson v. Youngblood · Hubbard v. Cornutt
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court on appeal will not consider constitutional questions not raised below. Alabama Brokerage Co. v. Boston, 18 Ala.App. 495 , 93 So. 289 , cert. denied, Ex parte Alabama Brokerage Co., 208 Ala. 242 , 94 So. 87 ; Hubbard v. Cornutt, 278 Ala. 512 , 179 So.2d 90 ; Vol. 2, Ala. Digest, Appeal & Error, key 170(2).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * Appeals from the decisions and orders of the judge of the family relations division of the circuit court shall lie directly to the Supreme Court of Alabama or Court of Appeals in the same manner as appeals from the orders and decisions of other circuit judges of the State of Alabama.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. State
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.