Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1914
1 district · 7 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 Ex parte Hardy · Campbell v. State · Lee v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A confession of judgment in a criminal case, by the convict and his surety, under contract between them for the performance of labor or services by the former, makes it a misdemeanor for him to leave or escape from such service, * * * contemplates only the payment of the fine and costs, for the nonpayment of which, under the constitutional provisions, * * * imprisonment or hard labor may be imposed. * * * The hirer becomes the transferee only of the right of the state to compel the satisfaction of such fine and costs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The party confessing judgment with the defendant for the fine and costs becomes the transferee * * * of the state to compel the satisfaction of the fine and costs' by exacting the involuntary servitude of the convict, ‘who himself contracts to change masters for this purpose.’ ””
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.