Smith v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2018
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Stewart v. Sonneborn · Coleman v. Burnett · Cusick v. Second Nat. Bank · Wolter v. Safeway Stores, Inc. · Chapman v. Anderson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Wjhere ... a crime of a serious nature has been committed and from the admitted facts or uncontradicted evidence it appears that the injured party has done nothing more than take reasonable and proper steps for the discovery and apprehension of the criminal that party merits, and should receive, the protection of the court. [ 304 A.2d at 308 .]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here the facts are not in dispute[,] the question of probable cause is one of law to be decided by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherrod v. McHugh“[t]he existence of probable cause is a mixed question of law and fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherrod v. McHugh
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.