State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Brady v. United States · Fay v. Noia · McCarthy 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a lawyer’s testimony at a coram nobis hearing concerning having advised a defendant prior to the guilty plea of the nature of the charges against him or her is admissible. Such testimony may be considered in a coram nobis proceeding in determining whether a defendant pled “voluntarily, with understanding of the nature of the charge” within the meaning of Maryland Rule 4-242(c).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Rich“this Court has held that such procedural statutes (e.g. statutes that change a statute of limitations) operate retrospectively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had not been raised at trial or in a previously-filed appeal, application for leave to appeal, or post-conviction petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hyman v. State
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.