Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Henry v. State (1995), Sims v. State (1996)
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 Stein v. People of State of New York Wissner · Andrews v. State · Monroe v. State · Allen v. State · Daniel 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.
“'a mere trifling and immaterial irregularity in the conduct of a juror will not require the grant of a new trial . . . an irregularity without opportunity for injury will not require the grant of a new trial' . . . the State . . . [has] the burden of showing that the defendant sustained no injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“irregularity without opportunity for injury”
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.