348 So. 2d 637 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2011
16 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 243 So. 2d 587 - State v. Davis · Foster v. United States · 317 So. 2d 842 - State v. Belcher
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our view the nature of the threat as conditional should have been regarded as evidence going to the issue of whether Deputy Rolling had a well-founded fear that violence was imminent. Though the conditional nature of the threat may well have lessened the probability that Deputy Rolling had a well-founded fear, the evidence was not such that the trial court could have concluded, as a matter of law, that Rolling did not have such a well-founded fear. (footnote omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“You step foot inside this house and I'll shoot you,”
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.