State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Bond (2015), State v. Ross (2007)
25 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 Brown v. Ohio · Lockhart v. Fretwell · State v. Clark · State v. Baker · Commonwealth v. Jones
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“two crimes are such that the greater cannot be committed without necessarily having committed the lesser, then ... they stand in the relationship of greater and lesser offenses, and the defendant cannot be convicted or punished for both.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“are different in nature than other criminal statutes because they single out particular characteristics of eriminal conduct as warranting harsher punishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bond · State v. Soules“clearly indicate that the provision ... is intended to enhance the penalty for [murder] when certain characteristics are present.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.