Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Dorsey v. State (1976), Harris v. State (1993)
71 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 Chapman v. State of California · People v. Wells · Sun Cab Company, Inc. v. Cusick · Quimby v. Greenhawk · Lanasa 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]se of a statement for impeachment purposes is not hearsay, since only the fact that the statement was made is being offered , not the truth of the statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“LT]he test of collateralness — whether the fact as to which the error is predicated could have been independently shown in evidence — actually means whether that fact could have been shown in evidence from the standpoint of relevancy. It is only in the context of relevancy that the rule accomplishes its underlying objectives. The test, therefore, and we think it is foreshadowed by our earlier decisions, is whether the fact as to which the error is predicated is relevant independently of the contradiction; and not whether the evidence would be independently admissible in terms of satisfying all the rules of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A witness generally may be cross-examined on any matter relevant to the issues, and the witness’s credibility is always relevant. Therefore, a witness, whether a party to the action or not, may be cross-examined on such matters and facts as are likely to affect his credibility, test his memory or knowledge, show his relation to the parties or the cause, his bias, or the like.”Smith v. State, 273 Md. 152, 157 , 328 A.2d 274 (1974).”
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.