308 Ga. App. 345 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Vansant v. State · Salazar v. Buono · State v. Jackson · Miller v. State · Clark 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decisions of the Supreme Court shall bind all other courts as precedents.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Stare decisis is an important principle that promotes the rule of law ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[s]erious rule of law costs would follow if lower courts were free to ignore precedent established by a higher court of appeal”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.