People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 41 Cal. 3d 554 - People v. Craft (1986), 16 Cal. 4th 90 - People v. Ledesma (1997)
38 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 Neal v. State of California · Killian v. United States · 8 Cal. 3d 625 - People v. Beamon · 23 Cal. 3d 545 - People v. Perez · 34 Cal. 3d 335 - People v. Belmontes
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.
“because adequate reasons for imposing full consecutive sentences on counts V and VI existed in abundance, the error in failing to state those reasons does not require a remand for resentencing”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Sperling
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.