Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2016
15 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Moody v. People · State v. M'Roberts · Click v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The marginal title of the section in all the revisions of the statute from and including that of 1839 is kidnaping, and by this name it is found in the index.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Croatt
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.