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← 415 Md. 174 - Smith v. State

Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

104
cited by 104 later decisions
2
states following
July 2023
most recently cited

104 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Smith · Pope v. State · Dawkins v. State · Moye v. State · Taylor 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'Possess' means to exercise actual or constructive dominion or control over a thing by one or more persons.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “must show directly or support a rational inference that the accused did in fact exercise some dominion or control over the [contraband].”
    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.