Holm v. Smilowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2015
16 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. § 631 (Federal Magistrate Act of 1979) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Bullock v. United States · Mathews v. Weber · People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · Galloway v. Truesdell · State v. Copeland
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the authority to hear and determine justiciable controversies[;] ... the authority to enforce any valid judgment, decree or order[;] ... [and the] power[] that [is] necessary to protect the fundamental integrity of the judicial branch.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he term `judicial power of courts' is generally understood to be the power to hear and determine controversies between adverse parties and questions in litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[tlhe people have a right to have their cases and controversies ultimately decided by ... judges who have been vested with judicial power by the constitution,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.