State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 354 So. 2d 186 - State v. Hills (1978), State v. Deboue (1989)
35 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. Gonsoulin · State v. Spencer · State v. Boswell · 44 La. Ann. 106 - State v. Lyons
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence which has become relevant or important only as an effect of some evidence introduced by the other side.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“since nothing could be more relevant in a criminal case than the confession of the accused, there can be no doubt that such confession must either be produced as part of the evidence in chief or not at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.