Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Hunt v. State (1990), Nails v. S & R, INC. (1994)
69 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 Pope v. Nebraska · Wilhelm v. State · Ross v. State · Poole v. State · Cornish 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The verdict is the unanimous decision made by the jury and reported to the court, on the matters lawfully submitted to them in the course of the trial.’ Unanimity is indispensable to the sufficiency of the verdict.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Colvin v. State“(a) Return. The verdict of a jury shall be unanimous and shall be returned in open court. (e) Poll of jury. On request of a party or on the court’s own initiative, the jury shall be polled after it has returned a verdict and before it is discharged. If the jurors do not unanimously concur in the verdict, the court may direct the jury to retire for further deliberation, or may discharge the jury if satisfied that a unanimous verdict cannot be reached.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Colvin v. State“When the jury have come to a unanimous determination with respect to their verdict, they return to the box to deliver it. The clerk then calls them over, by their names, and asks them whether they agree on this verdict, to which they reply in the affirmative. He then demands who shall say for them, to which they answer, their foreman. This being done, he desires the prisoner to hold up his right hand and addresses them: `Look upon the prisoner at the bar; how say you, is he guilty of the matter whereof he indicted or not guilty?' The foreman then answers guilty or not guilty, as the verdict may be. The officer then writes the word `guilty' or `not guilty' as the verdict is, on the record and again addresses the jury: Hearken to your verdict as the court hath recorded it. You say that is guilty (or not guilty) of the matter whereof he stands indicted, and so say you all.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · State v. Santiago
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