Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2005
6 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 Blackburn v. State · Commissioner of Social Services v. Klein · Jones v. State · Cape v. State · Adams 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant Smith complained that the information did not allege robbery as a Class B felony. Id. Unpersuaded, this Court held: Though it is undoubtedly preferable for an information for Attempted Robbery, Class B felony, to contain the phrase”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Francis v. State“, [ ] absent proof that the accused was misled by the phraseology employed, we do not think that such a phrase is imperative to satisfy the due process requirement of notice. Id. The State urges that Smith is disposi-tive arguing”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Francis v. State“Larry David Smith did knowingly attempt to take property, to wit U.S. currency, by using and threatening the use of force, to wit a firearm or bomb, thereby putting Roger Smith in fear and causing bodily injury to Roger Smith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Francis 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.