Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Smith v. State (2015), White v. State (2010)
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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Faretta v. California
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.
“it is not improper for the prosecutor to comment in closing argument on a non-testifying defendant's appearance and facial expressions”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sena
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.