Smith v. Kates’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 31 Ohio St. 3d 256 - Mentor Lagoons, Inc. v. Rubin (1987), Hecht v. Levin (1993)
27 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ur authority is exclusive and absolute. A disciplinary proceeding may be initiated only by compliance with Gov. [Bar] R. V.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Supreme Court shall prescribe rules governing practice and procedure in all courts of the state * * * . All laws in conflict with such rules shall be of no further force or effect after such rules have taken effect.””
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.