332 So. 2d 773 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2007
21 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 Cephus v. United States · 278 So. 2d 485 - State v. Douglas · 278 So. 2d 428 - Rampy v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. · United States v. Burton · State v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite the potential unfairness of the policy to a defendant, an erroneous denial of a motion for acquittal is nevertheless not cause for reversal if the evidence as a whole, including the defendant’s case, justifies the affirmance as guilty (assuming no other reversible error). To reverse, in such an instance, is to reverse not because the evidence’as a whole does not prove guilt; but because of an erroneous interlocutory ruling which was cured by subsequent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simpson“is insufficient to sustain a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sumler
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.