Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2012
22 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 52 Tex. Crim. 37 - Mitchell v. State · 108 Tex. Crim. 150 - Chester v. State · 74 Tex. Crim. 645 - Walker v. State · 75 Tex. Crim. 75 - Lamb v. State · 102 Tex. Crim. 256 - Klein 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An arrest of a person carries with it an element of detention, custody or control of the accused. The mere fact that an officer makes the statement to an accused that he is under arrest does not complete the arrest. There must be custody or detention and submission to such arrest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Medford v. State · Snabb v. State“He was either under arrest or not under arrest; and it is the writer’s opinion that the arrest had not been completed. He had to be taken into custody and detained. While he may have been told that he was under arrest, still when the officer attempted to complete the arrest, appellant refused to submit thereto, and his arrest and detention were not completed. It had to again take place, all the proceedings consuming about five minutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snabb v. State“He [defendant] was then approached by an officer who grabbed him from behind, disarmed him and told him to come and go to jail, at which time he refused to go, and the difficulty then ensued as the two officers attempted to detain him. He escaped and left the officers who were unable to detain him. Subsequently ... they peacefully took appellant into custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snabb 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.