Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 1986
24 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 Allison v. State · Clark v. State · Dewein v. State · Ringer v. State · Rayburn 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to these statutes two classes of murder constitute murder in the first degree, to-wit: (1) All murder committed by any hind of wilful, deliberate, malicious and premediated killing; and (2) all murder which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, or larceny * * * These two classes of murder in the first degree are separate and distinct. In the former a precedent intent to kill is necessary to constitute the offense, while in the latter it is not.” [Emphasis added]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Montague v. State · Walker v. State“* * * the evidence was sufficient to have supported a conviction for first-degree murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Dean
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.