State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Hinton (1993), State v. Hodge (1999)
3 federal appellate · 119 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Ham v. South Carolina · Rita v. United States
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant is entitled only to a jury unfettered by an order to decide and not to an instruction that a jury may hang.”
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.