Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably 531 So. 2d 682 - Robinette v. State (1987), 387 So. 2d 321 - Foy v. State (1980)
32 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 Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Di Re · State v. De Simone · 122 Ga. App. 455 - Willis v. State · State v. Carufel
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of the suspects' outer clothing and to seizure of hard objects whose size and shape give the officer probable cause to believe they are weapons.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The principle which emerged from [these cases] was that it is not constitutionally permissible `to search a person, not connected in any way with the place being searched, who merely happens to be upon the premises and who is not mentioned or described in the affidavit of probable cause upon which the warrant was issued.' Rather, `the law requires that there be probable cause to believe that such persons are themselves participating in criminal activity' or, somewhat more precisely, that there be probable cause that evidence which might be concealed or destroyed is to be found upon the person searched." (Footnotes omitted.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.