State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Gendron (1991), State v. Tison (1981)
96 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 Jackson v. Denno · State v. Richmond · Sullivan v. State of Arizona · State v. Owen · State v. Villavicencio
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fundamental error is error of such dimensions that it cannot be said it is possible for a defendant to have had a fair trial. It usually, if not always, involves the loss of federal constitutional rights. A claim of fundamental error is not a springboard to reversal where present counsel is simply second-guessing trial counsel.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The court shall conduct the voir dire examination, putting to the jurors all appropriate questions requested by counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Killian
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.