State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1,482 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,501 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Maurer (1984)
7 federal appellate · 1,482 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 Berger v. United States · United States v. Hasting · 6 Ohio St. 2d 14 - State v. Woodards · Kerestes v. United States · State v. Liberatore
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · Smith v. Phillips · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · State v. Lott
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 1,501 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether remarks were improper and, if so, whether they prejudicially affected substantial rights of the accused.”
114 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he touchstone of analysis `is the fairness of the trial, not the culpability of the prosecutor.' This court will not deem a trial unfair if, in the context of the entire trial, it appears beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury would have found the defendant guilty even without the improper comments.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A conviction will be reversed only where it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that, absent the prosecutor's comments, the jury would not have found appellant guilty.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.