Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
77
cited by 77 later decisions
1
states following
January 2024
most recently cited
77 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey · Vega v. State · Davis 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In determining whether the error was harmless, we review the record de novo and weigh the evidence as we would expect reasonable jurors to have done so,'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The test for determining nonconstitutional harmless error is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he new Evidence Code continues Georgia's existing harmless error doctrine for erroneous evidentiary rulings”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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