State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Sandoval v. Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc. (2009), Phillips v. People (2009)
56 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. Virginia · Griffin v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · Delaware v. Fensterer · Greer v. Miller
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that an isolated comment made during closing argument is not sufficient to warrant reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fry“so that we may gain a full understanding of the comments and their potential effect on the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fry“During closing argument, both the prosecution and defense are permitted wide latitude. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fry
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.