Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Bennett v. State (1988), Boone v. State (1984)
67 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 Upton v. State · Jones v. State · Abbott v. State · Pollard v. State · State v. Aten
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“41-2203. Theft of property. — (1) person commits theft of property if he: (a) knowingly takes or exercises unauthorized control over, or makes an unauthorized transfer of an interests in, the property of another person, with the purpose of depriving the owner thereof; or (b) knowingly obtains the property of another person, by deception or by threat, with the purpose of depriving the owner thereof. (2) (a) Theft of property is a class B felony if: (i) the value of the property is $2500 or more; or (ii) the property is obtained by the threat of serious physical injury to any person or destruction of the occupiable structure of another; or (iii) the property is obtained by threat and the actor stands in a confidential or fiduciary relationship to the person threatened. (b) Theft of property is a class C felony if: (i) the value of the property is less than $2500 but more than $100; or (ii) the property is obtained by threat; or (iii) the property is a firearm valued at less than $2500; or (iv) the property is a credit card. (c) Otherwise, theft of property is a class a [A] misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. State“[b]ut it must give rise to more than suspicion and the fact finder must not be left to speculation and conjecture in arriving at its conclusions on the question. Upton v. State, 257 Ark. 424 , 516 S.W.2d 904 [1974]. It is the duty of this court to set aside a judgment based upon evidence that did not meet the required standards and left the fact finder only to speculation and conjecture in choosing between two equally reasonable conclusions, and merely gave rise to a suspicion of guilt. Jones v. State, 246 Ark. 1057 , 441 S.W.2d 458 [1969].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hodge v. State“Evidence of concealment of the property may constitute evidence of a felonious intent [to deprive the owner of property], depending upon the surrounding circumstances.”
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.