State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1969
1 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on The People v. . Cook · United States Tr. Co. of New York v. . U.S. Fire Ins. Co. · Commonwealth v. Brown · People v. Allen · Pond v. Negus
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In general where a statute imposes upon a public officer the duty of performing some act relating to the interests of the public, and fixes a time for the doing of such act, the requirement as to time is to be regarded as directory, and not a limitation of the exercise of the power, unless it contains some negative words denying the exercise of the power after the time named; or from the character of the act to he performed, the manner of its performance, or its effect upon public interests or private rights, it must he presumed that the legislature had in contemplation that the act had better not he performed at all than he performed at any other time than that named.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.