Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1976 · most notably Cichos v. Indiana (1966), Beeman v. State (1953)
47 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 Hauk v. State · Shields v. State · Rose v. State · Agar v. State · Luther v. State
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . That even though this count charges appellant with the commission of two unlawful acts, viz.: the operation of his machine at an excessive rate of speed, in violation of § 10476c Burns’ 1914, supra, and while under the influence of liquor, in violation of § 10476f Burns’ 1914, Acts 1913 p. 779, 792, the prosecution is for the one offense of involuntary manslaughter to which each of such acts is alleged to have contributed, and the indictment is therefore not bad for duplicity;...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. State““This count of the indictment charges appellant with gross carelessness in the operation of his automobile and is clearly sufficient under the rule that a negligent act which shows a wanton and reckless disregard for the rights and safety of others, and which causes the death of another, will constitute manslaughter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beckman
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.