State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 520 So. 2d 250 - State v. Pettis (1988), 685 So. 2d 773 - Amend. to Fla. Rules of Appellate Proc. (1996)
83 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 Union Pac Ry Co v. Botsford · 155 So. 2d 10 - State v. Lampp · State v. Smith · 251 So. 2d 307 - Green 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because discovery in criminal cases was unknown to the common law,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny statute purporting to grant interlocutory appeals is clearly a declaration of legislative policy and no more. Until and unless the Supreme Court of Florida adopts such statute as its own ... the purported enactment is void.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown · State v. Stanley“`This Rule [6.3 b, F.A.R.] breathes life into a legislative Act which purports to permit appellate review of a pretrial order which ... suppresses evidence obtained by search and seizure [§ 924.071, F.S.]... .'”
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.