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← 451 N.E.2d 57 - Smith v. State

Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
June 2006
most recently cited

19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2006

19 state decisions

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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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Brady v. United States · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · United States v. California · N. P. Severin Co. v. Young

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.

  1. “... [Informing the jury of a defendant's prior conviction before a guilty verdict is returned on the alleged foundation charge unduly prejudices the defendant and denies him his constitutional right to due process.... The statutory scheme for marijuana dealing drug charges dealt with in Sweet is virtually indistinguishable from the intoxicated driver provisions under which Smith was tried.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ours v. State
  2. “a bifurcated trial is required as it is the best procedure to insure that the jury remains uninformed about a defendant's prior convictions until the appropriate time.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Shelton v. State
  3. “waiver of constitutionally protected rights may be accomplished only if performed in a voluntary, knowing, and intelligent manner,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Albright 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.