State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
April 2000
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Leuthner · State v. McCue · State v. Eldridge · State v. Caplin · State v. Lurvey
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence is relevant if it has any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence. Evidence which is not relevant is inadmissible. The determination of whether evidence is relevant is within the sound discretion of the trial court, and we will not reverse its determination absent evidence of abuse of that discretion. To demonstrate such an abuse the defendant must show that the evidentiary ruling was clearly untenable or unreasonable to the prejudice of his case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Girmay
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.