Smock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
October 1978
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tait v. State · Estes 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was testimony from the chief director of the Indianapolis Fire Bureau that in his opinion both fires were deliberately set by a human being.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellis 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.