27 Va. App. 357 - Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2018
15 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Scherl v. Fisher · Mitan v. United States · Banks v. Privonka · Tanner v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although an Alford plea allows a 'defendant to plead guilty amid assertions of innocence, it does not require a court to accept those assertions. The sentencing court may, of necessity, con sider a broad range of information, including the evidence of the crime, the defendant’s criminal history and the demeanor of the defendant, including the presence or absence of remorse. Such considerations play an important role in the court’s determination of the rehabilitative potential of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“require him to assume responsibility for crimes while asserting his innocence”
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.