No 25383’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1995
1 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Eisler v. United States · Allen v. State of Georgia · Smith v. United States · Selma and Meridian Railroad Company v. Louisiana National Bank of New Orleans · Cameron v. Mullen
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognize the difference between appeals to this court and discretionary writs of certiorari. We do not believe, however, that the Supreme Court’s decision in Smith ... was based solely on the discretionary nature of writs of certiorari. Rather, we feel that the decision in Smith rests upon the inherent discretion of any court to refuse to hear the claim of a litigant who indicates that he will comply with that court’s decree only if it is favorable.”
3 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.