Smith v. Bounds’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 77 · 1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2010
4 federal appellate · 1 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Bounds v. Smith · Weinstein v. Bradford · North Carolina v. Rice · Ross v. Moffitt
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court treated it as such. That question too has been recently treated by us in Stamper v. Baskerville, 724 F.2d 1106 (4th Cir.1984), in which we relied on the language I have quoted above from Sanford and added:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. Bounds“1B Moore's Federal Practice Sec. 0.404 p. 172 (1983). 19 The Supreme Court, in this very case, decided the questions before it on the basis that the district court had left to the State the choice of which alternative would”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. Bounds“defendants' failure to respond to the December 21, 1984 order was not an isolated incident. Clearly, defendants knew or should have known that counsel had a history of failing to respond to the court's orders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Bounds
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.