Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 458 So. 2d 37 - Mischler v. State (1984), 469 So. 2d 179 - Steiner v. State (1985)
50 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 Florida Bar: Amendment to Rules of Criminal Procedure · 450 So. 2d 926 - Harvey v. State · Sherman 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not prohibit the court from considering aggravating circumstances and actions of the accused in the commission of the offense ... as a basis for departure from the guidelines.”
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.