Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 177th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Michigan v. Mosley
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule encompasses all facts and circumstances, which when tested by human experience, tend to show that a witness may shade his testimony for the purpose of helping to establish one side of the cause only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State
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.