United States Smith v. Baldi’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
230 federal appellate · 21 district · 214 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 584 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Murray v. Carrier (1986)
230 federal appellate · 21 district · 214 state decisions — followed in 31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Smith v. Warden (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Allen · Fisher v. United States · Solesbee v. Balkcom · Ray v. Blair
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 584 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ever since our ancestral common law emerged out of the darkness of its early barbaric days, it has been a postulate of Western civilization that the taking of life by the hand of an insane person is not murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Herrera · State v. Herrera““A denial of adequate opportunity to sustain the plea of insanity is a denial of the safeguard of due process in its historical procedural sense which is within the incontrovertible scope of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” “§ 1441. Actions removable generally “(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided by Act of Congress, any civil action brought in a State court of which the district courts of the United States have original jurisdiction, may be removed by the defendant or the defendants, to the district court of the United States for the ■district and division embracing the place where such action is pending.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bush v. McCollum““[N]ot ‘unless special circumstances prevail, should the lowest federal court reverse the highest state court in cases where the constitutional issues have been disposed on the merits by the highest state court in an opinion specifically setting forth its reasons that there has been no denial of due process of law, and where the record before the state court and the allegations in the petition for the writ before the federal court fail to disclose that the state in its prosecution departed from constitutional requirements.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.