State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably State v. Cuckovich (1972), State v. Raspberry (1970)
2 federal appellate · 100 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 Jencks v. United States · Palermo v. United States · Brasfield v. United States · Katchen v. Landy · Beck v. United States
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.
““The expression, ‘throwing dust in one’s eyes,’ is a common and generally understood expression used to convey the thought that one is attempting to confuse the real issue. * * * We find no prejudicial error in overruling the objection.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.