In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably In Re Cicchetti (2000), In Re Trkula (1997)
40 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 Corabi v. Curtis Publishing Co. · Krupinski v. Vocational Technical School Eastern Northampton County · Barrett v. Otis Elevator Co. · 299 Pa. Super. 463 - Habecker v. Nationwide Insurance · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Tancredi
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Disrepute” necessarily incorporates some standard with regard to the reasonable expectations of the public of a judicial officer’s conduct.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Trkula · In Re Strock“Canon 2 in general is directed towards conduct which could potentially cause the public or litigants to believe that a judge is not acting impartially.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Berkhimer · In Re Strock“[A] judicial officer who engages in conduct which prejudices the proper administration of justice would have the added element of a mental state in which he or she not only knew that the conduct at issue consisted of some neglect or impropriety, but also acted with the knowledge and intent that the conduct would have a deleterious effect upon the administration of justice, for example by effecting a specific outcome. (Emphasis added.)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Berkhimer · In Re Joyce
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.