Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · 42 So. 3d 503 - Rowland v. State · Brooks v. State · 9 So. 3d 368 - Burrough v. State · 644 So. 2d 451 - Moody 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an intervening decision of the United States Supreme Court or the Mississippi Supreme Court adversely affecting the outcome of his conviction or sentence; (2) new evidence, not reasonably discoverable at trial, which would have caused a different result in the conviction or sentence; or (3) that either his sentence has expired or his parole, probation, or conditional release has been unlawfully revoked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the mere suggestion of a constitutional-rights violation is not itself sufficient to surmount the time-bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Errors affecting fundamental constitutional rights are excepted from the procedural bars.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.