Smith v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 944 · 1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2001
7 federal appellate ·
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 Bruton v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · Harrington v. 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“J. Wigmore, Evidence § 1367 (3d ed. 1940). As we have previously noted: 46 (T)he right of cross-examination is more than a desirable rule of trial procedure. It is implicit in the constitutional right of confrontation, and helps assure the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an essential and fundamental requirement for the kind of fair trial which is this country's constitutional goal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“accuracy of the truth-determining process.”
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.