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.
“[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 passagee.g. Webb 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.