Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2010
10 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 SGRO v. United States · Gernat v. Gernat · 113 So. 2d 394 - Hamelmann v. State · Rodriguez v. State · 368 So. 2d 899 - Hudson 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The length of time between the events relied upon to obtain a search warrant and the date of issuance bears upon probable cause. Generally, as the time period increases there is less likelihood that the items sought to be seized will be found on the premises described in the warrant."”
4 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.