Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), Dykes v. State (1990)
71 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 Texas v. Louisiana · Wolff v. McDonnell · Commonwealth v. Pounds · Bruce v. State · State v. Grady
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may, and at the request of any party shall, instruct the jury as to the applicable law and the extent to which the instructions are binding.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Binnie v. State“`it is incumbent upon the court ... to give an instruction on every essential question or point of law supported by the evidence.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court of Special Appeals, as well as a majority of cases throughout the country, have held that when the evidence in a criminal case generates the issue of alibi, and when the defendant requests an instruction specifically addressed to the matter of alibi, the defendant is entitled to a specific alibi instruction, and that the trial court’s general instructions concerning the prosecution’s burden of proof, etc., are not deemed to “fairly cover” the matter of alibi. .... 302 Md. at 180 , 486 A.2d at 198 .”
2 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.