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← 299 GA 424 - Smith v. State

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.

  1. “'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
  2. “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
  3. “[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

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.