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State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

87
cited by 87 later decisions
2
states following
December 2022
most recently cited

87 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Sivri (1994), State v. Correa (1997)

87 state decisions

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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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2

Relies on Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Luce v. United States · State v. Evans · Garber v. United States · ASARCO Inc. v. Kadish

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

  1. “A person, acting with the mental state required for commission of an offense, who solicits, requests, commands, importunes or intentionally aids another person to engage in conduct which constitutes an offense shall be criminally liable for such conduct and may be prosecuted and punished as if he were the principal offender.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[s]o long as the answer is clearly responsive to the question asked, the questioner may not later secure a reversal on the basis of any invited error.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “not phrased in language the defendant would have preferred.”
    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.