State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown (2002), State v. Roggenkamp (2005)
48 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 Sullivan v. Louisiana · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 105 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Bergeron · United States v. David · 125 Wash. 2d 707 - State v. Byrd
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by which the jury measures the evidence to determine guilt or innocence.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pope · State v. Oster“It cannot be said that a defendant has had a fair trial if the jury must guess at the meaning of an essential element of a crime or if the jury might assume that an essential element need not be proved.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stein · State v. Jones“Accordingly, a trial court errs by failing to accurately instruct the jury as to each element of a charged crime if an instruction relieves the State of its burden of proving every essential element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pope · State v. Garbaccio
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.