State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2017
9 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2781 · 42 U.S.C. § 2790
Relies on State v. Melerine · State Ex Rel. Porterie v. Jones · State v. Titus · Miller v. Board of Com'rs of Port of New Orleans · State Ex Rel. Tallant v. Board of Com'rs
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those who are not clearly included by the terms of a criminal statute are excluded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(9) "Public officer," "public office," "public employee" or "position of public authority" means and applied to any executive, ministerial, administrative, judicial, or legislative officer, office, employee or position of authority respectively, of the state of Louisiana or any parish, municipality, district, or other political subdivision thereof, of any agency, board, commission, department or institution of said state, parish, municipality, district, or other political subdivision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) the entity was created by the legislature, (2) the powers were specifically defined by the legislature, (3) the property of the entity belonged to the public, and (4) the entity's functions were exclusively of a public character and performed solely for the public benefit.”
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.