State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1,002 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,005 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Earnhardt (1982), State v. Bullard (1984)
3 federal appellate · 1,002 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · State v. Fulcher · Thompson v. Wake County Board of Education · State v. Atkinson · State v. Witherspoon
Cited together with State v. Powell · State v. Fritsch · 186 N.C. App. 57 - State v. Smith · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Rose
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 1,005 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
126 later decisions quote this exact passage“Upon defendant's motion for dismissal, the question for the Court is whether there is substantial evidence (1) of each essential element of the offense charged, or of a lesser offense included therein, and (2) of defendant's being the perpetrator of such offense. If so, the motion is properly denied.”
98 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here there is no doubt that a defendant is fully aware of the charge against him, or is in no way prejudiced by the omission of a formal arraignment, it is not reversible error for the trial court to fail to conduct a formal arraignment proceeding.”
4 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.