State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 466 So. 2d 660 - State v. Necaise (1985), 493 So. 2d 842 - State v. Cathey (1986)
27 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 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 425 So. 2d 1251 - State v. Telsee · 408 So. 2d 1255 - State v. Dewey · 428 So. 2d 468 - State v. Guajardo · 315 So. 2d 675 - State v. Carlisle
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allow us to make an independent determination of whether this sentence is excessive”
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.