State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 211 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably McCray v. State of Illinois (1967), Commonwealth v. Bosurgi (1963)
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 182 state decisions — followed in 19 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1 · 18 U.S.C. § 3052 · 18 U.S.C. § 3109
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Boyd v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Elkins v. United States
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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it is the duty of a policeman to investigate, and we cannot say that in striking a balance between the rights of the individual and the needs of law enforcement, the Fourth Amendment itself draws the blinds [to the window] the occupant could have drawn but did not”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Moreover, in striking a balance between the right of the State and the rights of the individual, the need to protect the innocent is not a conspicuous factor; for, as we have said, the hypothesis includes the existence of probable cause and indeed a reasonable basis to believe a criminal event is in progress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a felony is deemed to be an offense for which a sentence to the state penitentiary could be imposed.”
2 later decisions 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.