Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably Lock v. State (1980), Walton v. State (1980)
36 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 Dunn v. United States · Ortiz v. State · Pulliam v. State · Ruetz v. State · Brooks 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After the jury have retired for deliberation, if there is a disagreement between them as to any part of the testimony, or if they desire to be informed as to any point of law arising in the case, they may request the officer to conduct them into court, where the information required shall be given in the presence of, or after notice to, the parties or their attorneys.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grayson v. State · Shaffer v. State““the trial court commits no error when it refuses to instruct the jury as to the effect of the State’s failure to produce known witnesses where the defendant had access to all of these witnesses and could have called them as his own witnesses. Gatchett v. State, (1973) 261 Ind. 109 , 300 N.E.2d 665 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State
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.