Jon Keith Smith v. Michael Groose Missouri Attorney General’s Empirical Analysis
205 F.3d 1045 · 2000
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Melvin Tyler v. Burl Cain Warden (2001), State v. Colon (2004)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Teague v. Lane · Berger v. United States
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To violate due process, an inconsistency must exist at the core of the prosecutor's cases against defendants for the same crime,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The prosecutor’s theories of the same crime in the two different trials negate one another. They are totally inconsistent. This flip flopping of theories of the offense was inherently unfair. Under the peculiar facts of this case the actions by the prosecutor violate the fundamental fairness essential to the very concept of justice ... The state cannot divide and conquer in this manner. Such actions reduce criminal trials to mere gamesmanship and rob them of their supposed search for the truth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stumpf v. Mitchell · Stumpf v. Houk“[Because the prosecutor] is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer ..., [i]t is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate method to bring about one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stumpf v. Houk
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.