Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A trial court does not abuse its discretion when it admits . . . hearsay testimony consisting of uncontradicted statements ... by an unavailable witness to individuals in whom the declarant placed great confidence and to whom the declarant turned for help with problems.” [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.