Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1988
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stovall v. Denno · Jones 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ‘confrontation’ as defined in [Stovall] is an occasion when a witness looks at a suspect or listens to a voice for the purpose of attempting to make an identification.” (Citation omitted.) Smith v. State, (1975) 263 Ind. 643 , 336 N.E.2d 648, 649 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norris v. State
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.