State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably State v. Evans (1973), State v. Piskorski (1979)
68 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 Ker v. State of California · Harris v. United States · State v. Towles · Rome v. Archer · Hanauer v. Coscia
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination of the qualifications of an expert witness lies in the discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Biller
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.