Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2017
23 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 Harris v. Oklahoma · Poindexter v. State · Luckett v. State · Guardiola v. State · Spivey 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“aware of facts that would alert a reasonable parent under the circumstances to take affirmative action to protect the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McMichael v. State · Davis v. State“as conduct in which the actor is aware of a high probability that he is so engaged. However, the Indiana Court of Appeals disagrees as to the definition of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Armour v. State“the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment ... bars separate sentencing upon the lesser crime when sentencing is imposed upon the greater one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bean v. State
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.