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Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

68
cited by 68 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
June 2010
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 68 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010 · most notably Gregg v. Georgia (1976), Smith v. Balkcom (1981)

9 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

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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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Mapp v. Ohio · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Harris v. New York

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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The law is settled in Georgia that the corroborating facts or circumstances must connect the defendant to the crime or lead to the inference that he is guilty, and that such corroboration must be independent of the accomplice’s testimony. Allen v. State, 215 Ga. 455 ( 111 SE2d 70 ); Price v. State, 208 Ga. 695 ( 69 SE2d 253 ). . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Birt v. State
  2. “after the fact of conspiracy shall be proved, the declarations by any one of the conspirators during the pendency of the criminal project shall be admissible against all.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gunter v. State
  3. “(w)hether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gregg v. Georgia

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.