Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1955 · most notably United States v. Ninety-Nine Diamonds (1905), United States v. Colorado & N. W. R. Co. (1907)
10 federal appellate · 24 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts must not, even to give effect to what they may suppose to be the intention of the legislature, put upon the provision of a statute a construction not supported by the words, even although the consequence should be to defeat the object of the act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Even when a court is convinced that the legislature really meant and intended something not expressed by the phraseology of' the act, it will not deem itself authorized to depart from the plain meaning of the language, which is free from ambiguity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The courts cannot imagine an intent, and bend the letter of the act to it.””
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.