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Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
3
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Brewner v. State (2017), Fullwood v. Sivley (1999)

29 state decisions

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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 Jackson v. Virginia · Farley v. State · State v. Belt · Cofield v. State · Mobley v. State

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “` [r]egardless of when the defendant wishes the jury instructed on the limited admissibility of similar transaction evidence, it is incumbent upon him to make a timely request to the trial court for such a charge.' [Cit.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “even the destruction of potentially exculpatory evidence does not violate due process unless the police acted in bad faith in failing to preserve the evidence. [Cits.]”
    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.