State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably State v. Johnson (1982), State v. Bumpus (1990)
33 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 Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Goldstein v. United States · Barry v. Sigler · State v. O'CONNELL
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has a long history of not reversing on the ground of technical defects in procedure unless it appears in some way they have prejudiced the complaining party or deprived him or her of full opportunity to make defense to the charge presented in the indictment or information.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kile · State v. Buford“[a Additional witnesses in support of the indictment or trial information may be presented by the prosecuting attorney if he or she has given the defendant’s attorney of record ... a minute of such witness’ evidence, as defined in R.Cr.P. 4(6) “a” or 5(3), at least ten days before the commencement of the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nebinger · State v. Braun“[A]ny person convicted of a class “C” or a class “D” felony, who has twice before been convicted of any felony in a court of this state or any other state, or the United States. An offense is a felony if, by the law under which the person is convicted, it is so classified at the time of his or her conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spoonmore · State v. Lam
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.