Smith v. Potts’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Liberty Nat. v. Univ. of Ala. Health Servs. (2003), Fraternal Order of Police, Strawberry Lodge 40 v. Entrekin (1975)
60 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 Baker v. Carr · Flast v. Cohen · Crowley v. Christensen · Ziffrin, Inc. v. Reeves · Crane v. Campbell
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if his stake in the resolution of that complaint assumes the proportions necessary to ensure that he will vigorously present his case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““This court holds that these plaintiffs, who have shown no injury through enforcement of Acts No. 863, No. 1053, and No. 1054, and who have shown no expectation of benefit should the Acts be voided, do not have standing to present the question of constitutionality.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the question of standing to bring an action focuses on the party seeking to bring a complaint before a court and not on the issues the party wishes to have adjudicated.”
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.