Smiddy v. Barlow’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 2004
3 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 Duke v. Smith
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person accused of crime for which he might suffer the death penalty has the right to remain at liberty upon reasonable bail pending trial unless the Commonwealth shows his manifest guilt or produces evidence sufficient to create great presumption of guilt. Duke v. Smith, Ky., 253 S.W.2d 242, 243 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Simpson v. Owens · Finn v. McClard
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.