Smith v. Sampson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2023
22 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 Roemer v. United States · Waldschmidt v. Ranier · South Central Enterprises, Inc. v. Farrington · Guin v. Ha · Morrison v. Olson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support [the challenged] conclusion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. YJ v. State · Risch v. State“does not reweigh the evidence or choose between competing inferences.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the absence of a hearsay objection, hearsay evidence is competent evidence which may be considered.”). Lynn also contends that Don consented to enrolling Justin in Orion. This argument is without merit. As her own affidavit points out, Don gave permission for her to enroll Justin in Orion pending his applications to various other area schools, but she and Don”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bird v. Starkey
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.