409 So. 2d 455 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably Bowden v. State (1988), 440 So. 2d 1155 - Brewer v. State (1983)
1 federal appellate · 43 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 Reed v. Reed · Mayo v. United States · Johnson v. State · Johnson v. State · 392 So. 2d 1274 - Watson 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is our decision that § 13A-6-61 , Code of Alabama 1975, is not unconstitutional due to its alleged discriminatory treatment of males because the punishment prescribed therein was reasonably designed to deter and control a specific and serious problem of legitimate concern to the citizens of this state."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is nothing in the record to verify appellant's arguments at trial and his stated grounds in his 'motion to quash' that he indeed requested, and the trial court so ordered, a preliminary hearing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[did] not contend that he did not have three prior convictions, but rather that they were not properly proven at the sentencing hearing.”
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.