Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2015
18 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Brown Et Al. v. Wainwright, Corrections Secretary · Sireci v. Florida
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the grounds that this successive 3.850 motion is an abuse of the post-conviction process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and are thus foreclosed from consideration under post conviction relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones 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.