418 So. 2d 534 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2004
16 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 408 So. 2d 1354 - State v. Messer · State v. Lee · 364 So. 2d 1011 - State v. Constantine · 315 So. 2d 763 - State v. Green · 358 So. 2d 1268 - State v. Bernard
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he courts of this state have time and again refused to allow prosecutors to exploit a defense counsel's inattention, omission, or mistake by making repeated and persistent prejudicial comments and references about inadmissible evidence of other crimes of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Evidence of conviction of crime, but not of arrest .... is admissible for the purpose of impeaching the credibility of the witness.... and no witness, whether he be defendant or not, can be asked on cross-examination whether or not he has ever been indicted or arrested, and can only be questioned as to conviction, and as provided herein."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“... it was clearly erroneous for the prosecutor to question the defendant on cross examination about her prior two arrests...”
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.