Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Spradlin v. State (1991), Harrison v. State (1995)
78 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Zickefoose v. State · Nelson v. State · Jacks v. State · Harris 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the act must have been done with the specific intent to kill.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A person who knowingly or intentionally kills another human being ... commits murder, a felony.! . 'A person attempts to commit a crime when, acting with the culpability required for commission of the crime, he engages in conduct that constitutes a substantial step toward commission of the crime.' * # * * * # A person engages in conduct”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. State · Wells v. State“First, the defendant must have been acting with a specific intent to commit the crime, and second, he must have engaged in an overt act which constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of the crime.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Woodcox v. State · Stewart 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.