Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2024
21 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Patterson v. State · Stevens v. State · Toler v. State · 166 Ga. App. 300 - METROPOLITAN PROPERTY & LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY v. Shepherd
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here an issue is raised, as to whether the probative value of evidence is outweighed by its tendency to `unduly arouse the jury's emotions of prejudice, hostility or sympathy' the trial judge has discretion to be exercised in determining admissibility”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farley 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.