State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2002
4 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 Barnes v. State · Harrison v. State · Hedrick 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assuming a defense of voluntary abandonment, does there come a point at which it is too late for the defendant to withdraw? Obviously there must be, for it would hardly do to excuse the defendant from attempted murder after he had wounded the victim or, indeed, after he had fired and missed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Gandiaga“detach{ ] himself from the eriminal enterprise before the act with which he is charged is in the process of consummation or has become so inevitable that it cannot reasonably be stayed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Gandiaga
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.