State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Schad v. Arizona (1991), State v. Bible (1993)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · Enmund v. Florida · Scharffe v. Perkins · Tison v. Arizona · Odend'Hal v.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the course of and in furtherance of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Thus, as a matter of sound administrative justice and efficiency in processing murder cases in the future, we urge trial courts, when a case is submitted to the jury on alternative theories of premeditated and felony murder, to give alternate forms of ver-diet so the jury may clearly indicate whether neither, one, or both theories apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. St. Nattis v. State“Words that are used in their ordinary sense and are commonly understood require no definitional instruction to the jury. Here, “knowingly” falls into this category.”
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.