State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Locurto (1999), State v. Mendez (1999)
45 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 Carroll v. United States · Delaware v. Prouse · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · United States v. Sokolow · United States v. Ross
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is permitted only when there is a colorable claim that a police agency has an officially sanctioned or de facto policy of selective enforcement against minorities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At the plea hearing for each defendant, the prosecutor placed on the record that the State’s plea agreement was based upon the sentencing court’s acceptance of the plea of both defendants as well as a criminal history report showing no prior indictable convictions. Each defendant also signed and initialed a plea form indicating that the plea was based on no prior convictions and contingent on the plea of the co-defendant. [Id. at 381-82, 703 A.2d 954 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Conway“a defendant must present `some evidence tending to show the existence of the essential elements of the defense and that the documents in the government's possession would indeed be probative of these elements.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.