Smith v. Hooey’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
581 federal appellate · 104 district · 1,195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,342 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Barker v. Wingo (1972), United States v. Marion (1971)
581 federal appellate · 104 district · 1,195 state decisions — followed in 48 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Barber v. Page · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · United States v. Ewell
Cited together with Barker v. Wingo · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Dickey v. Florida · United States v. Marion · United States v. Ewell
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 2,342 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“undue and oppressive incarceration prior to trial.”
59 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutional duty to make a diligent, good-faith effort”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed[.]”
13 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.