In re Smiley’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2004 · most notably Juidice v. Vail (1977), Doe v. State (1990)
8 federal appellate · 18 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 22 Utah 2d 12 - Mental Condition of Bedford v. Salt Lake County
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on no view of the matter is counsel required in a matrimonial action as a condition to access to the court. Of course, counsel is always desirable, and in complicated matrimonial litigation would be essential. But however desirable or necessary, representation by counsel is not a legal condition to access to the courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“legislation was enacted to provide systematic representation of defendants by assigned counsel and for their compensation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“duty ... to provide uncompensated services for the indigent.”
2 later decisions 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.