Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 1996
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Timmons v. Commonwealth · Griffin v. Commonwealth
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any restraint on a victim . . . must be close in distance and brief in time in order for the [kidnapping] exemption to apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Com.
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.