Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
December 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Jones v. State · State v. Gardner · 305 Ga. App. 497 - Goss 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pretermitting whether a best evidence objection had merit, ... Garrett did not show that if trial counsel had made a best evidence objection that the State could not have introduced the original writing or satisfactorily accounted for its absence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's failure to assert ... best evidence rule objection[s], the trial's result would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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