Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably California v. Greenwood (1988), 115 Wash. 2d 571 - State v. Boland (1990)
52 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Ker v. State of California
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]irst that a person has exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy and, second, that the expectation be one that society is prepared to recognize as ‘reasonable.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed. The legislature shall implement this section.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Anderson v. State · State v. Stump“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses and other property, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Beltz v. State · Nathanson v. State
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.