Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Thigpen v. Roberts (1984), 616 So. 2d 899 - Porter v. State (1993)
133 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 Bessie Cannon v. State of Florida · Cutshall v. State · Cain v. State · Gregory v. State · Bolton 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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`... [A] negligence of a degree so gross as to be tantamount to a wanton disregard of, or utter indifference to, the safety of human life, and that this shall be so clearly evidenced as to place it beyond every reasonable doubt.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"* * * In other words, culpable negligence should be defined as the conscious and wanton or reckless disregard of the probabilities of fatal consequences to others as a result of the wilful creation of an unreasonable risk thereof." ( 212 Miss. at 467 , 54 So.2d at 725 )”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nichols v. State · State v. Tjaden“was guilty of such gross negligence ... as to evince on his part a wanton or reckless disregard for the safety of human life, or such an indifference to the consequences of his act under the surrounding circumstances as to render his conduct tantamount to wilfulness ...”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.