State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2026
1 federal appellate · 20 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 United States v. Modica · United States v. Bess · State v. True · State v. Farrell · United States v. Vargas
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The policies underlying this proscription go to the heart of a fair trial. The prosecutor is cloaked with the authority of the [State]; he stands before the jury as the community’s representative. His remarks are those, not simply of an advocate, but rather of a [State] official duty-bound to see that justice is done. [[Image here]] ... [T]he representative of the government approaches the jury with the inevitable asset of tremendous credibility — but that personal credibility is one weapon he must not use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Casella“[the defendant] gets caught lying and he can’t even admit it,””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Casella
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.