State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1936 · most notably State v. Evans (1920), State v. Finch (1909)
25 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. Anderson · State v. Morey · Farmers' National Bank v. Woodell · Stanley v. Commonwealth · State v. Magers
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before one can excuse his conduct in taking the life of another it must appear that it was done to prevent the apparent commission of a felony by the latter upon him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Butler
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.