Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
38
cited by 38 later decisions
1
states following
May 1983
most recently cited
36 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. State · Sudduth v. Central of Georgia Ry. Co. · Brock 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Under the factual theory of the defense the defendant was not under the duty to retreat and exception to the oral charge was made because of the failure of the court to charge on the law as it is claimed to relate to the theory of the defense. “In the instant case it is sufficient to say that when the oral charge is not as full and instructive as defendant’s counsel desired his remedy is to request written charges which elucidate and explain the defendant’s theory of the case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.