Smith v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Elrod v. Burns · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right of the people . . . to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDonald v. Smith“within the general protection afforded by the petition clause,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDonald v. Smith
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.