State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Fulminante (1989), State v. Brewer (1992)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 60 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 Terry v. Ohio · Proffitt v. Florida · State v. Gretzler · State v. Richmond · Richmond v. Arizona
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Relevant evidence" means evidence having 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the contents of Smith's pockets which were bulging with shotgun ammunition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Arizona, first degree murder is only one crime regardless of whether it occurs as premeditated murder or a felony murder ____ Although a defendant is entitled to a unanimous jury verdict on whether the criminal act charged has been committed, ... the defendant is not entitled to a unanimous verdict on the precise manner in which the act was committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bishop
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.