Smallwood v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Pyle v. State (2000), Smith v. State (2003)
46 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 Wicks v. State · Larimore v. State · Gustafson v. State · Stewart v. State · Hill 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Smallwood made no argument in his request for concurrent sentences and raises no argument on appeal. Smallwood contends only that there is no way to evaluate the trial judge’s decision, and therefore his proper use of discretion, because he did not explain his decision orally or in writing. Since this is a matter within his discretion we will not presume he did not exercise that discretion unless there is some indication otherwise.”
1 later decision 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.