Smith v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2014
2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1746
Relies on In re Loney · State Ex Rel. Young v. Noble Circuit Court · Higgins v. Hale · English v. Dickey · Browning v. Walters
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court shall fix a date within twenty (20) days after the return day fixed in the notice to the Contestee for the hearing on a contest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pabey v. Pastrick
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.