152 Tex. Crim. 399 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1996
5 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 96 Tex. Crim. 249 - Atwood v. State · 81 Tex. Crim. 109 - Lerma v. State · 36 Tex. Crim. 84 - Dane v. State · 100 Tex. Crim. 512 - Reid v. State · 92 Tex. Crim. 147 - Brown v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was improper for the court to permit the District Attorney to pass around to the members of the jury a part of the liquor that was involved and have them smell it. This procedure has often been criticized, and the reason for its continued repetition is difficult to comprehend. If the information gotten by this experiment could be appropriated by them to any controverted question, the conviction would be jeopardized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kaldis v. State
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.