Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably Jones v. State (1969), Reed v. United States (1968)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Spears v. State · Suit v. State · Gerard v. State · Kinard v. City of Conway
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A so-called ‘suspended sentence’ or ‘suspension of sentence’ is in the nature of a privilege extended to a defendant upon condition and is awarded or withheld in the court’s sound discretion as to the worthiness and possibility o.f rehabilitation of the defendant and on conditions fixed by the court. A revocation of a suspension is in the nature of a revocation of a privilege previously extended, and the sufficiency of evidence as to whether or not the conditions upon which the suspension was granted have or have not been met or complied with by the defendant, also lies within the sound discretion of the trial court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Townsend v. State““Furthermore, we have on many occasions held that the suspension of a sentence rests in the sound discretion of the trial court and that the sufficiency of the evidence for revocation of such suspension also lies within the sound discretion of the trial court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rheuark 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.