Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2019
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Evans v. State · Tinsley v. State · Duncan 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at any time, the judge has reasonable grounds for believing the defendant lacks the ability to understand the procedures and to assist in his own defense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cotton v. State · Denes v. State“the question of a defendant's competency to stand trial may be raised at any time, including long after trial, convietion, and sentencing have occurred.”
2 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.