Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Rankin v. State · Clay v. State · Walker v. State · 328 Ga. App. 876 - Williams v. the 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The introduction of evidence of a prior felony conviction is intended to afford the jury a basis to infer that the witness's character is such that he would be less likely than the average trustworthy citizen to be truthful in his testimony. The introduction of evidence of a prior crime is thus a general attack on the credibility of the witness.”
2 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.