State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1,236 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,261 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Jamison (1990)
6 federal appellate · 1,236 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 Strickland v. Washington · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · Williams v. Florida · Wardius v. Oregon · State v. Lytle
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Bradley · State v. Thompkins · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · State v. Jenks
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 1,261 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the defendant must show that counsel's performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the `counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.”
101 later decisions quote this exact passage“Crim.R. 12.1 should be construed liberally and not be applied where no prejudice would accrue to the prosecution, where there is a demonstrable and excusable showing of mere negligence, or where there is good cause shown.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“fails to raise [in the direct appeal] the issue of competent trial counsel and said issue could fairly have been determined without resort to evidence dehors the record, res judicata is a proper basis for dismissing defendant's petition for post-conviction relief.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · Cooey v. Anderson
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.