Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 1966
most recently cited
3 state decisions
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“written and published by (defendant) solely and for the purpose of bringing the (prosecuting witness) into great contempt, scandal, infamy and disgrace”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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