Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably State v. Lane (2020), 269 Ga. App. 619 - Phillips v. State (2004)
29 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Allen v. United States · Earnest v. State · State v. Eubanks · Joyner 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal, a conviction will be affirmed if [the appellate c]ourt determines that, under the evidence, any rational trier of fact could have found proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The evidence adduced at trial authorized the jury to find that Smith and his co-worker, Cleopatra Mwangi, whom he”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Donnell v. Smith
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.