United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1994
7 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 Katz v. United States · Harris v. United States · 57 Cal. 2d 602 - Bielicki v. Superior Court · 58 Cal. 2d 469 - Britt v. Superior Court · Smayda v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... we cannot say it was unreasonable for the officers to conclude that illegal conduct of some sort was in progress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Delmondo“underneath the door of one of the pay toilet stalls two pairs of legs dressed in male attire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Delmondo
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.