State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Schriver (1988), Keogh v. City of Bridgeport (1982)
44 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Harriss · Dobbert v. Florida · Smith v. Goguen · Winters v. People of State of New York
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the charge, the jury could have found the defendant guilty if they believed beyond a reasonable doubt that the 'scale' had been tipped in favor of conviction. This is not the same as the constitutionally mandated standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.