State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1947
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the Attorney General, on inspecting the record, is satisfied that error has been committed to the prejudice of the state, and upon which it is important, to the correct and uniform administration of the criminal law, that the Supreme Court should decide, he may, by lodging the transcript in the clerk's office of the Supreme Court within sixty days after the decision, take the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Browning
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.