Smith v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
315 F.2d 692 · 1963
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably Jurek v. Estelle (1980), West v. Johnson (1996)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Brown v. Allen · McNabb v. United States · Culombe v. Connecticut · Spano v. People of the State of New York
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule in McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332 , 63 S.Ct. 608, 87 L.Ed. 819 (1943) [which] prohibits the use in [federal] criminal cases of confessions ... where there was a failure to bring the accused before a committing magistrate without unnecessary delay ... has not been extended to state prosecutions as a requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West v. Johnson“Failure to [timely] take an accused before a magistrate ... bear[s] only upon the issue of voluntariness”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West v. Johnson“the manifest attitude of the police toward”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jurek v. Estelle
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.