Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Dempsey v. State (1976), Gill v. State (1972)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 69 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Avery v. State of Alabama · White v. Ragen · Jones v. State · Davis 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before a confession can be admitted in evidence, the State must show, to the satisfaction of the court, that it was the free and voluntary act of an accused; that no force or coercion was exercised by the officers obtaining the confession, to cause the accused to confess; that no hope or promise was held out to an accused for the purpose of inducing him to confess.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We are of opinion that the best practice is to hear evidence on the preliminary question [of whether a confession by the accused was freely and voluntarily made] out of the presence of the jury, and we recommend such practice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brice v. State
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.