State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably State v. Clouatre (1972), State v. Edwards (1978)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 State v. Kreller · State v. Oliver
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Sjince track marks may show prior knowing possession, evidence of them is admissible in a prosecution for possession of heroin. State v. Oliver, 247 La. 729 , 174 So.2d 509 (1965). While not evidence that the accused possessed, this heroin on this occasion, evidence of track marks is relevant as tending to prove that the accused knew that such substance (if possessed) was heroin, an essential element of the proof required for conviction. (Emphasis by Supreme Court) 244 So.2d at 825-826 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris“the knowing and intentional possession of a drug subjecting the possessor to criminal liability.”
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.