Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 628 So. 2d 1116 - State v. Foret (1993), State v. Spigarolo (1989)
72 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 State v. Middleton · Childers v. State · Lanoue v. State · Wilson v. State · Terrible v. State
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I] n this instance we are concerned with a child who states she has been the victim of sexual abuse by a member of her family. The experts testified that in this situation the young victim often feels guilty about testifying against someone she loves and wonders if she is doing the right thing in so testifying. It would be useful to the jury to know that not just this victim but many child victims are ambivalent about the forcefulness with which they want to pursue the complaint, and it is not uncommon for them to deny the act ever happened. Explaining this superficially bizarre behavior by identifying its emotional antecedents could help the jury better assess the witness’ credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marcum v. State“If scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by special knowledge, skill, experience, training or education may testify to matters within the scope of such knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. State“superficially unusual behavior of the victim and her mother”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez 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.