Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 415 SC 490 - Smalls v. State

Smalls v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · State v. Lyle · Ard v. Catoe · State v. Kornahrens · Porter 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We hold trial counsel was deficient for failing to challenge the State's comments either by objecting or by pointing out during the closing arguments that the State failed to prove this assertion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “there was no prejudice resulting from trial counsel's deficient performance because the State presented overwhelming evidence of [Smalls'] guilt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “gives great deference to the PCR court's ... conclusions of law.”
    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.