Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably Blue v. State (1944), Stone v. State (1922)
98 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 Cross v. State · Storey v. State · Cox v. State · McGehee v. State · Bluett 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The charge was properly refused, for the use of the word ‘supposition.’ All cases in this state, holding that the refusal of such a charge is erroneous, are hereby overruled.” ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All such impeaching and sustaining character evidence must be carefully limited by the trial court to the question of the credibility of the defendant as a witness.”
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.