Culver v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1973
6 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 Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Wilson v. United States · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · United States v. Grimaud · Wayman v. Southard
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . This distinction between purely private papers, books, and records, and purely private property, and business or property subject to regulation and control by the state under its police power, and in aid of its Conservation Laws, renders the cases cited not in point.” “See, also, the following cases which are analogous with regard to the right of governmental regulation of certain businesses, and which hold, in substance, that the books, papers, documents, and data pertaining to lawfully regulated businesses may be examined, or required to be produced, and that the properties of such businesses may be inspected in the reasonable regulation of same where affected with the public interest; and that such requirements do not amount to unreasonable search and seizure as inhibited by the Fourth Amendment. . . . ” (citing cases)”
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.