Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2013
5 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 Adams v. State · Poulin v. Zartman · Haskins v. Shelden · Cooper v. Argonaut Insurance Companies · Rodriguez v. Besser Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an administrative appeal from the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board, an award of costs or attorneys’ fees shall not be made against the employee/claimant in either the supreme court or the superior court unless the court finds that the claimant’s position was frivolous, unreasonable, or taken in bad faith.”
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.