Smallwood v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Merzbacher v. State (1997), Grandison v. State (1995)
117 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Dorsey v. State · State v. Cox · Collins 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitutionally required threshold level of inquiry.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“A judge must allow a defendant wide latitude to cross-examine a witness as to bias or prejudice, Bruce [v. State ], 318 Md. [706], 727, 569 A.2d [1254], 1265 [ (1990) ], but the questioning must not be allowed to stray into collateral matters which would obscure the trial issues and lead to the factfinder’s confusion. [State v. ] Cox, 298 Md. [173,] 178, 468 A.2d [319,] 321 [ (1983) ].”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[F]or purposes of cross-examination of a prosecution witness in order to show bias or motive, ‘[T]he crux of the inquiry insofar as its relevance is concerned, is the witness' state of mind. What is essential to the preservation of the right to cross-examine is that the interrogator be permitted to probe into whether the witness is acting under a hope or belief of leniency or reward,’”
4 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.