State v. Smack’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably State v. Bradford (1997), 715 So. 2d 641 - State v. Dunn (1998)
79 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 State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 374 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Spencer · 380 So. 2d 1361 - State v. Goode · 412 So. 2d 1335 - State v. Bell
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... [a] sentence will not be set aside as excessive absent manifest abuse of the trial judge's sentencing discretion. State v. Spencer, 374 So.2d 1195 (La. 1979); State v. Sepulvado, [ 367 So.2d 762 (La.1979) ], supra. The penalty imposed must be so disproportionate to the crime committed, in light of the harm caused to society, as to shock our sense of justice. State v. Bonanno, 384 So.2d 355 (La.1980); State v. Goode, 380 So.2d 1361 (La.1980)." State v. Smack, 425 So.2d 737, 740 (La.1983).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simpson · State v. See“The state agreed to a sentence limitation of five years and dismissal of the two remaining counts.... Defendant was sentenced to ... five years. Defendant contends the trial judge erred in imposing an excessive sentence. This issue is before us for review [Citing State v. Pearson, 425 So.2d 704 (La. 1982), Bell ]. Defendant's plea bargain was not for a specific sentence, but for a maximum sentence limitation. Therefore, State v. Hicks ... and State v. Curry ... are inapposite. Emphasis and paragraphing supplied.”
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.