Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
73
cited by 73 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
17
states following
April 2010
most recently cited
27 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2010 · most notably Lanza v. State of New York (1962), Procunier v. Atchley (1971)
27 federal appellate · 34 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Alabama
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.