State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably State v. Bland (1997), Towe Antique Ford Foundation v. Internal Revenue Service (1993)
5 federal appellate · 34 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Ake v. Oklahoma · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Enmund v. Florida
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The defendant] has not claimed that the State has set up a scheme to prolong the period of his incarceration or purposely resentenced [the defendant] in order to torment him. The delay in carrying out the sentence of death has been caused by the fact that [the defendant] has availed himself of procedures our law provides to ensure that executions are carried out only in appropriate cireum-stances. That this differs from the practice at common law, where executions could be carried out on the dawn following the pronouncement of the sentence, is a consequence of our evolving standards of decency, which prompt us to provide death row inmates with ample opportunities to contest their convictions and sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State“whether the evidence supports the judge's finding of the existence or nonexistence of the aggravating or mitigating circumstances enumerated in 46-18-303 and 46-18-304.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“specific written findings of fact as to the existence or nonexistence of each of the circumstances set forth in ... 46-18-304.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sattler
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.