State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Johnson v. State of New Jersey (1966), State v. Preciose (1992)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 58 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
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · Turner v. Louisiana
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * a post-conviction proceeding may not be used as a substitute for an appeal from the judgment of conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the legality of the arrest as such has no bearing upon the validity of the conviction.”
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.