434 So. 2d 212 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 666 So. 2d 767 - Cole v. State (1995), Lockett v. State (1987)
5 federal appellate · 58 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Engle v. Isaac · Enmund v. Florida · Kennedy v. Powell · 430 So. 2d 832 - Read 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]e must specifically allege facts showing that effective assistance of counsel was not in fact rendered, and he must allege with specificity the fact that but for such purported actions by ineffective counsel, the results of the trial court decision would have been different.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hamlin v. State · Nichols v. State“Likewise, the orderly administration of justice does not require this Court to”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Black · Pruett v. Thigpen“post-conviction relief in Mississippi is not granted upon facts and issues which could or should have been litigated at trial and on appeal.”
3 later decisions 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.