State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Coffey (1990), State v. Green (1994)
82 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 Ake v. Oklahoma · Lockhart v. McCree · McDougall v. North Carolina · Smith v. North Carolina · State v. Young
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant next assigns as error the trial court’s entry, over six months post-trial, of a written order denying defendant’s motion to suppress identification testimony. He argues that this order should be held void as entered out of term without the consent of the parties pursuant to State v. Boone, 310 N.C. 284, 286-91 , 311 S.E.2d 552, 554-55 (1984). The order, however, is simply a revised written version of the verbal order entered in open court which denied defendant’s motion to suppress decedent’s wife’s identification testimony. It was inserted in the transcript in place of the verbal order rendered in open court. In State v. Homer, 310 N.C. 274, 278-79 , 311 S.E.2d 281, 285 (1984), we held that the trial court’s order denying defendant’s motion to suppress items of physical evidence was not improperly entered out of session and out of district where the court passed on each part of the motion to suppress in open court as it was argued and later reduced its ruling to writing, signed the order, and filed it with the clerk. The procedure here did not differ substantively from that in Homer . We thus overrule this assignment of error.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[your] inability to reach a unanimous verdict should not be [your] concern but should simply be reported to the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]istrial is a drastic remedy, warranted only for such serious improprieties as would make it impossible to attain a fair and impartial verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cesnik · State v. McNeill
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.