Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 248 Ga. App. 859 - State v. Gibbons (2001), 240 Ga. App. 783 - Migliore v. State (1999)
35 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 Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · 206 Ga. App. 654 - Rogers v. State · 187 Ga. App. 765 - Pupo v. State · 186 Ga. App. 758 - Raney 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““has been described by this court as a brief stop, limited in time to that minimally necessary to investigate the allegation invoking suspicion, and limited in scope to identification and limited questioning reasonably related to the circumstances that justified the initiation of the momentary stop. (Cit.)” [Cit.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“probed into [the defendant's] possession of contraband, specifically narcotics,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]t the point the officer initiated this later probe, he went beyond the permissible scope of the investigation and his further detention of Smith went beyond that permitted by Terry and its progeny.”
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.