Smith v. Sheeter’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2011
1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Fay v. Noia · Connally v. General Construction Co. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Picard v. Connor
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his provision suffers from both vagueness and overbreadth. No criteria or standards are set forth whereby even a wary individual could reasonably know what will be considered a `disruption' of the orderly conduct of lawful activities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“give sufficiently fair notice to one who would avoid its sanctions, and [fails to provide] ascertainable standards to the fact finder who just adjudicate guilt under it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in circumstances which create a substantial risk of disrupting the orderly conduct of lawful activities at a college or university”
1 later decision 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.