Smith v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Sinclair v. Gunzenhauser (1912), 167 Ind. App. 582 - Citizens National Bank of Grant County v. Harvey (1976)
56 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 Parks · Wright v. State · Evans v. Ashby · State v. Ah Hung · Cain v. Goda
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction, valid upon its face, and a valid commitment under it, is an unanswerable return to a writ of habeas corpus.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Ho court or judge shall inquire into the legality of any judgment or process whereby the party is in custody, or discharge him when the term of commitment has not expired, in either of the cases following: (1) Upon any process issued on any final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell v. Kees
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.