Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2006
16 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. Johnson · Pollard v. State · King v. State · Rodriquez v. State · United States v. Kowal
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State, as it should, bears a heavy burden to prove that a warrantless search is voluntary... That burden is to prove by clear and positive testimony that [the] consent was freely and voluntarily given... On appeal, we made an independent determination considering the totality of the circumstances to see if the State has met its burden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Guzman v. State“It was admitted that none of the items appear to be incriminating by their nature; they were stock items available to consumers throughout commerce. Certainly there was no inadvertent discovery. The initial intrusion could only be lawful if consent was given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Storey
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.