Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1987
24 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 United States v. Ross · Blue v. State · Cross v. State · Davis v. State · Lewis 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although being a statement of fact unsupported by the evidence, not being pertinent to the issue of defendant's guilt and not having a natural tendency to influence the finding of the jury, it fails to meet the requirements of the rule for reversal of the cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was entirely extraneous to any issue actually involved in the appellant's trial. Moreover, it did not have a natural tendency to influence the finding of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“natural tendency to influence the finding of the jury”
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.