Smith v. Rhay’s Empirical Analysis
419 F.2d 160 · 1969
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably United States v. Pheaster (1976), United States v. Crawford (2004)
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not purporting to have grounds for arrest,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although [the suspect] was told that he had the right to an attorney, he was not ... told, as required by Miranda , that he had the right to the presence of an attorney....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We think it obvious ... that a parole officer may not conduct a warrantless search of items in the parolee's possession while acting on the prior request of law enforcement officials and in concert with them. The parole officer is in such a case acting[ ] not as the supervising guardian ... of the parolee[ ] but as the agent of the very authority upon whom the requirement for a search warrant is constitutionally 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.