Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Wicks v. State (1980), Perry v. State (1982)
30 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 Compton v. United States · Wilson v. State · Camp v. Arkansas · Bell v. State · Taylor v. City of Pine Bluff
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Well, there is an admission of some guilt of some criminality on your part. And all I'm saying is that a not guilty verdict should not be considered by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Al Lockhart“Mr. Lee [defense counsel] has admitted that [Smith] is guilty of something. So, you can disregard that not guilty verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. Al Lockhart
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.