State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 10 district · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Culombe v. Connecticut (1961), State v. Johnson (1964)
24 federal appellate · 10 district · 170 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Stein v. People of State of New York Wissner · Bullock v. State · Roesel v. State
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judge should himself try the issue of voluntariness in the preliminary hearing and should exclude the confession if the State fails to prove it to be voluntary, and if he admits it into evidence, he should strike it if at a later stage involuntariness should appear.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Slobodian“The jury should not at any time be informed of the trial court's finding of voluntariness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for the future guidance of the trial bench.”
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.