State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Clark (1980), State v. Lujan (1979)
38 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 State v. Rodgers · State v. Garcia · State v. Castro · State v. Caruthers · State v. Steed
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the evidence is viewed to ascertain whether it supports a reasonable inference that the flight or attempted flight was open, such as the result of an immediate pursuit. If this is not the case then the evidence must support the inference that the accused utilized the element of concealment or attempted concealment. State v. Rodgers, [ 103 Ariz. 393 , 442 P.2d 840 (1968).] The absence of any evidence supporting either of these findings would mean that the giving of an instruction on flight would be prejudicial error.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Weible · State v. Speers
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.