State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
258 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 258 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Quynh Truong v. Allstate Insurance (2010), State v. Trujillo (2009)
258 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 Rogers v. Tennessee · State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · Sims v. Sims · State v. Rivera · Guiseppi v. Walling
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 258 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ur ultimate goal ... is to ascertain and give effect to the intent of the Legislature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[o]ur ultimate goal in statutory construction is to ascertain and give effect to the intent of the Legislature. It is the high duty and responsibility of the judicial branch of government to facilitate and promote the legislature's accomplishment of its purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Ordunez · State v. Johnson“[t]he plain meaning rule must yield on occasion to an intention otherwise discerned in terms of equity, legislative history, or other sources.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Quintana · Fry v. Lopez
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.