130 Ohio App. 3d 360 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably 152 Ohio App. 3d 629 - State v. Condon (2003), 138 Ohio App. 3d 408 - State v. Freeman (2000)
44 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. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Griffin v. California
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is a prosecutor's duty in closing argument to avoid efforts to obtain a conviction by going beyond the evidence that has been presented to the jury. Therefore, references by a prosecutor during closing argument to material outside the record normally constitute error and may serve as the basis for reversal when the error is prejudicial to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is natural to conclude that the intention of such language is to underscore [the defendant's] failure to testify and his silence as to an alibi. A reasonable juror could conclude that if [the defendant] had an alibi he would not remain silent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“created the belief in the minds of the jury that the defense had the burden of proof on the matter of [ownership of the jacket], particularly with no curative instructive from the trial judge.”
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.