Smith v. Duckworth’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 1492 · 1990
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Smith V. Secretary of New Mexico Department of Corrections (1995), Holland v. McGinnis (1992)
23 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1291
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Colorado v. Connelly · Carnegie v. United States · Miller v. Fenton · United States v. Debrow
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intoxication by itself could not support a finding of involuntariness and is relevant only to the extent it made him more susceptible to mentally coercive police tactics”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.