Slayton v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Picard v. Connor (1971), United States v. Dioguardi (1974)
51 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSmith v. Cox (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Nelson v. George · Wade v. Wilson · Doherty v. United States · Smith v. Cox
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any implication as to the merits of so delicate a subject”
5 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.