In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado (1965), 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch (1972)
8 federal appellate · 42 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 In Re Shull · 27 Cal. 2d 637 - In Re Cowen · 27 Cal. 2d 753 - In Re Etie · 25 Cal. 2d 794 - In Re Marzec · In Re Mann
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Time credits do not accrue as a matter of right but must be allowed by affirmative action of the Adult Authority in its discretion * * * and no provision of law requires that the Authority, when considering whether a prisoner has earned and should be allowed credits, need give notice and hearing or make a written finding as to the reason for its action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Skapura v. McFaul“cause must be stated in the order suspending or revoking the parole.”
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.