State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2018
22 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 Crane v. Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway Co. · State v. Brown · Daniels v. Bloomquist · State v. Grady · Gibbs Ex Rel. Gibbs v. Wilmeth
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Statement. A `statement' is (1) an oral or written assertion or (2) nonverbal conduct of a person, if it is intended by him as an assertion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in a prosecution for rape, or assault with intent to commit rape, ... cannot be convicted upon the testimony of the person injured, unless she be corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No error can be predicated on the failure to grant the motion for directed verdict made at the close of the State’s evidence. The court may sustain such a motion but is not required to do so. (Authorities cited).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Graham
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.