Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Calhoun v. State (1983), Ice v. Commonwealth (1984)
31 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 Pennsylvania Railroad v. Rychlik · Van Hoff v. Redevelopment Agency of San Francisco · Merriweather v. Commonwealth · Tarrence v. Commonwealth · Griffith v. Commonwealth
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.. the rule (is) that all evidence which is pertinent to the issue and tends to prove the crime charged against the accused is admissible, although it may also approve or tend to prove the commission of other crimes by him or to establish collateral facts.””
3 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.