Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2008
15 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 California v. Green · Patterson v. State · Lewis v. State · Pawloski v. State · Samuels 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Briefly stated, the Patterson rule is that a prior statement of a witness is admissible, not only for purposes of impeachment, but also as substantive evidence, provided the out-of-court asserter is present at trial for cross-examination." (Citations omitted, original emphasis.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In cautioning against over-extensions of Patterson, our Supreme Court has warned that the exception must not be used as `a mere substitute for available in-court testimony.' Samuels v. State, supra . "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. D. H. v. J. H. · Dh v. Jh
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.