Smith v. Satran’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 1994
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Nebraska v. Iowa · Desmond v. United States Board of Parole · McGuire v. WARDEN OF STATE FARM, ETC.
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.
““Section 2. The supreme court shall be the highest court of the state. It shall have appellate jurisdiction, and shall also have original jurisdiction with authority to issue, hear, and determine such original and remedial writs as may be necessary to properly exercise its jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jensen 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.