Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Taylor v. State of Alabama (1948), 366 So. 2d 336 - Summers v. State (1978)
63 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 Johnson v. Williams · Lamb v. State of Florida · House 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The office of the writ of error coram nobis is to bring to the attention of the court for correction an error of fact, one not appearing on the face of the record , unknown to the court or the party affected, and which, if known in season, would have prevented the rendition of the judgment challenged." Smith v. State , 245 Ala. 161 , 16 So.2d 315 (1944) (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A proceeding for a writ of error coram nobis is in the nature of a new civil suit, and must be filed as part of the proceedings in the case to which it refers, and in the court which rendered the judgment. 24 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1606(2), p. 146, notes 15 and 16; House v. State, supra, ( 130 Fla. 400 , 177 So. 705 .)” Smith v. State, 245 Ala. 161 , 16 So.2d 315, 316 .”
2 later decisions 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.