Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Brown v. State (1983), 684 So. 2d 736 - Chicone v. State (1996)
27 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 Frank v. State · 179 So. 2d 873 - Spataro v. State · 210 So. 2d 486 - Markman v. State · 272 So. 2d 813 - Markham v. Markham · Smith 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] couple living together without benefit of clergy under the same situation would apparently enjoy the advantage of a different result, requiring direct evidence of knowledge; such a rule would penalize those who follow the legal requirements of marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. State“. . could well render unduly harsh results against a husband in altogether innocent circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan 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.