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← 45 ALAAPP 167 - Smith v. State

Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1969

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1988
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Burgett v. Texas · People v. Coffey · 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State · Ellis v. State · Wright 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he number of times a witness has been convicted is within the scope of legitimate inquiry for purposes of establishing his credibility.”
    1 later decision 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.