State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2000
3 federal appellate · 3 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 State v. Benny · State v. Kaufman · United States v. Tobin · State v. Matarazza · State v. Moore
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statutory standard: 37 Guilt is personal; the determinant here is the reasoned conviction of the mind of the accused, a subjective inquiry, not a theoretical, vicarious belief of the hypothetical reasonable man, as the State and the accused would have it, akin to the standard governing reparation in damages for the civil wrong occasioned by negligence. 38 Id. at 64; cf. Wuliger, 981 F.2d at 1504 (finding fault with the district court's”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[k]nowledge within the meaning of law . . . may consist of credible information on material facts and circumstances sufficient in content and quality to generate a reasonable belief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must avoid the realm of metaphysics in the exercise of the interpretive process.”
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.