State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
56
cited by 56 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
June 1992
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Santoni v. United States · State v. Richmond · State v. Watson · State v. Knapp · State v. Blazak
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the issue of guilt is settled and only the question of punishment remains, due process is not offended by requiring the already guilty defendant to carry the burden of showing why he should receive leniency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Arizona“[f]acts which would tend to show mitigation are peculiarly within the knowledge of a defendant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Arizona
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.