Smith, Peak v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably FULLER v. State (1971), Shack v. State (1972)
37 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 Stephenson v. State · Steffler v. State · Brewster v. State · Badgley v. State · Taylor, Bryant 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Instruction No. 5 “Proof of the existence of a conspiracy does not need to rest solely on words giving rise to an express agreement, but may be inferred from acts and conduct of the persons accused done in pursuance of an apparent criminal or unlawful purpose in common between them.” “Instruction No. 6 “The intent to commit the crime charged may be inferred from the surrounding circumstances.””
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.