89 Misc. 2d 789 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably 30 Cal. 4th 1342 - Intel Corp. v. Hamidi (2003), Mary Gormley v. Director, Connecticut State Department of Adult Probation (1980)
2 federal appellate · 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When, with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person, he: Makes a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate communication."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the impropriety was not in the complaint made by the defendant but in its repetition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKillop v. State
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.