State v. Smallwood’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably State v. Valdez (1999), State v. Webber (1996)
40 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 Alderman v. United States · Cree v. Goldstein · Goldberg v. United States · Brooks v. Tennessee · Schreiner 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As affecting the credibility of a witness . . . (c) evidence of traits of his or her character other than honesty or veracity or their opposites, shall be inadmissible; (d) evidence of specific instances of his or her conduct relevant only as tending to prove a trait of his or her character, shall be inadmissible.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Patton · State v. Olsman““The appellant argues because Mr. Meeks lied under oath on several occasions prior to the trial, he was incapable of understanding his duty to tell the truth. This argument overlooks the purpose of K.S.A. 60-417(£>). That provision concerns whether a person is mentally and intellectually able to recognize the moral and legal duty of a witness to tell the truth. If Mr. Meeks previously lied as a witness, such conduct demonstrates a failure to comply with his duty to tell the truth rather than a failure to understand or recognize it. Moreover, the transcript reveals Mr. Meeks was questioned concerning his concept of the truth and his duty as a witness to tell the truth. He clearly understood his duty as a witness.” 223 Kan. at 327 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Bordman““. . . [A] statement is either a written statement made by the witness and signed or otherwise adopted or approved by him. And if a witness has read an officer’s report containing the statement of that witness and has adopted that officer’s report, then that is an adoptive statement and you are entitled to see it. But if it is simply the officer’s recollection of what the witness said, then it is not a statement and doesn’t fall into that definition or into the next definition which contemplates a statement being made before a court reporter or on a tape recorder. So that is the definition of a statement. . . .””
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.