State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably State v. Butler (1958), Smith v. Yeager (1968)
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 37 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 State v. Bucanis · State v. Vaszorich · State v. Hauptmann · State v. Hunt · State v. Bogen
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be proved to be faithful representations of the subject at the time in question. Fundamentally, photographs are deemed to be pictorial communications of a qualified witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“clear and unmistakable and must substantially prejudice the defendant's fundamental right to have the jury fairly evaluate the merits of his defense.”
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.