Smith v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Steffel v. Thompson · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. v. Epstein · National Student Ass'n v. Hershey · Wolff v. Selective Service Local Board No. 16
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“material prejudice would result to the substantial rights of the party against whom the process issued,”
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.