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← 203 Mont. 346 - State v. Smith

State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
November 1995
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Meader · State v. Wilson · State v. Trowbridge · State v. Godsey

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “direct evidence or by evidence of acts, declarations, or conduct of the accused from which a jury may infer knowledge.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. ““[t]he knowing control of anything for a sufficient time to be able to terminate control.””
    1 later decision 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.