State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably State v. Fritsch (2000), State v. Jones (1996)
34 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · State v. Brower · State v. Baldwin · State v. Wade · State v. Ysaguire
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, however, a motion to continue is based on a constitutional right, then the motion presents a question of law which is fully reviewable on appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] motion for a continuance is ordinarily addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court.”
3 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.