Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1974
11 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 Inter-City Trucking Co. v. Daniels · 2 Smith & H. 633 - Keller v. State · 1 Smith & H. 7 - Copeland v. State · Bradam v. State · Holder 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test appears to be whether or not the driver, violating the highway statute in the particular above considered, does so consciously, or under circumstances which would charge a reasonably prudent person with appreciation of the fact and the anticipation of consequences injurious or fatal to others.” Potter v. State, 174 Tenn. 118, 127 , 124 S. W. (2d) 232, 236 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. State
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.