Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2021
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 Dombrowski v. Pfister · Midgett v. State · United States v. De Sisto · Dykes v. State · State v. Grady
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.
“[T]he standard of review for jury instructions is that so long as the law is fairly covered by the jury instructions, reviewing courts should not disturb them. If, however, the instructions are ambiguous, misleading[,] or confusing to jurors, those instructions will result in reversal and a remand for a new trial. On the other hand, the instructions must be read in context. The charge to the jury must be considered as a whole and the Court will not condemn a charge because of the way in which it is expressed or because an isolated part of it does not seem to do justice to one side or the other.”
3 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.