Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Brown v. State (1996), 73 Wash. App. 257 - Keates v. City of Vancouver (1994)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 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 United States v. Neustadt · 56 Ill. App. 3d 815 - Lyddon v. Shaw · Quinones v. United States · Brody v. Ruby · Wilson v. Nepstad
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The public has a vital stake in the active investigation and prosecution of crime. Police officers and other investigative agents must make quick and important decisions as to the course an investigation shall take. Their judgment will not always be right; but to assure continued vigorous police work, those charged with that duty should not be liable for mere negligence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any claim against the state of Iowa for money only, on account of damage to or loss of property or on account of personal injury or death, caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the state while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the state, if a private person, would be’ liable to the claimant for such damage, loss, injury, or death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In view of the well fixed rule that, for persuasive public policy reasons, law enforcement officers have no liability for mere negligence in the investigation of crime, we do not believe the legislature, in enacting the Iowa Torts Claim Act, intended to create a new and hitherto unrecognized tort, [emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burr v. Dahlgran
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.