Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably Miller v. State (1996), Mullis v. State (1943)
37 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 Mattox v. United States · Robert West v. State of Louisiana · Anderson v. Southern Railway Co. · Bergen v. People · State v. Simmons
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person charged with an offense against the laws of this State ... shall be confronted with the witnesses testifying against him. . .” Code Ann. § 2-105. It is also basic that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.