Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Lowery v. State (1985), Jackson v. State (2000)
25 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 Poindexter v. State · Birkla v. State · Hall v. State · Robinson v. State · Brown 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[Dluring February of 1980, [Smith] made plans to kill the man she was living with, James Furnish [(Furnish) ]. She discussed these plans with her daughter's boyfriend, Willie Keown [ (Keown) J. She told Keown that she wanted to kill Furnish because he was beating up on her and one daughter, Candy, and that he had threatened to kill her. She also told Keown that Furnish had raped her other daughter, Dove Annette Smith [ (Dove Annette) ], whom Keown was dating at that time. [Smith] promised Keown a place to live, a car, and some of the insurance money if he helped her kill Furnish. On February 24, 1980, there was an argument between [Smith] and Furnish. Furnish threatened to kill [Smith] and her daughters, and the police were eventually called. After this, [Smith] and her daughters temporarily moved out of Furnish's house. There were further discussions between [Smith] and Keown about the planned murder, and [Smith] gave Keown some money to purchase a gun. Keown bought a rifle from a friend and, eventually, the night of March 14, 1980, was chosen to commit the crime. On that night, [Smith] led Keown to the bar where Furnish was employed. She told Keown to wait outside until she came out with Furnish for she would keep Furnish in the bar until after it was closed and everyone else was gone. This plan was carried out as Keown shot Furnish when he and [Smith] later came out of the bar. Furnish died from the single gunshot wound. [Smith] helped Keown obtain a job after the shootin”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“[Smith] claims that the two convictions are derived from the same acts and thus should be merged. The law is clearly settled adversely to defendant's position. Each of the two offenses here required proof of an element which the other did not. In a similar case, we stated: 'Appellant next contends that he should not have had separate consecutive sentences ordered for felony murder and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. A conspiracy involves an intelligent and deliberate agreement to commit an offense. [Citation omitted.] It was unnecessary for the State to prove such an agreement in proof of the felony murder here. It was also unnecessary for the State to prove a killing in order to prove its conspiracy charge. The charges are therefore not the same for sentencing purposes.' Williams v. State, (1981) Ind., 426 N.E.2d 662, 670 . It was proper here for the court to give separate sentences for the conspiracy and the murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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