Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably State v. Boggs (1992), 135 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Sandoval (1990)
137 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Smith v. State · Allison v. State · State v. Butler · 198 Cal. App. 3d 10 - People v. Adams · 183 Ga. App. 314 - Taylor 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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before such evidence can be admitted, the trial court must make a threshold determination outside the presence of the jury that a reasonable probability of falsity exists.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“to attack the credibility of the prosecutrix and as substantive evidence tending to prove that the instant offense did not occur.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an expert may not testify as to his opinion as to the existence vel non of a fact (in this [ Allison ] case, whether the child had been abused sexually) unless the inference to be drawn from facts in evidence is beyond the ken of the jurorsthat is, unless the jurors, for want of specialized knowledge, skill, or experience, are incapable of drawingfrom facts in evidencesuch an inference for themselves.”
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.