232 Ga. App. 290 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 235 Ga. App. 827 - Rehberger v. State (1998), Nichols v. State (2007)
39 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 Williams v. State · Bacon v. State · Stephens v. State · Farley v. State · Walraven 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases of domestic violence, prior incidents of abuse against family members or sexual partners are more generally permitted because there is a logical connection between violent acts against two different persons with whom the accused had a similar emotional or intimate attachment. 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a probability that the defendant committed the crime on trial because he is a man of criminal character”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“primary aim of this rule [admissibility showing] is to avoid the forbidden inference of propensity.”
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.