Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Kelly (1984), 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State (1984)
6 federal appellate · 178 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 State v. Wilkerson · Lackey v. State · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Saul · Jones v. State · Stewart 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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he expert's testimony explaining why a person suffering from battered woman's syndrome would not leave her mate, would not inform police or friends, and would fear increased aggression against herself, would be such conclusions that jurors could not ordinarily draw for themselves.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . Expert opinion testimony on issues to be decided by the jury, even the ultimate issue, is admissible where the conclusion of the expert is one which jurors would not ordinarily be able to draw for themselves; i.e., the conclusion is beyond the ken of the average layman.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ⅝ ⅜ * assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue * * ⅝.” Rule 702, W.R.E.”
3 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.