State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2024
20 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. Buggs · Denison State Bank v. Madeira · State v. Tillery · State v. MacK · Johnson v. McArthur
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A trial judge in passing on a motion for judgment of acquittal must determine whether upon the evidence, giving full play to the right of the jury to determine credibility, weigh the evidence, and draw justifiable inferences of fact therefrom, a reasonable mind, or rational trier of facts, might fairly conclude guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.’ ” State v. Hill, 233 Kan. 648, 651 , 664 P.2d 840 (1983); State v. Mack, 228 Kan. 83, 89 , 612 P.2d 158 (1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A trial court has discretion in giving its instructions to the jury and on appeal the instructions should be approved, if, after considering them in their entirety, they properly and fairly state the law as applied to the facts in the case.” State v. Smith, 232 Kan. 284, 290, 654 P.2d 929 (1982); State v. Ferguson, Washington & Tucker, 228 Kan. 522, 526 , 618 P.2d 1186 (1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'In connection with the charge of Kidnapping, you are instructed that no particular distance of removal is required, nor any particular time or place of confinement. Under 12 our law, it is the fact, not the distance of the taking, and the fact, not the time or place of confinement, that supplies the necessary element of Kidnapping.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moore
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.