Smith v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2008 · most notably Tw Electrical Service Inc Nn v. Pacific Electrical Contractors Association (1987), T.W. Electrical Service, Inc. v. Pacific Electrical Contractors Ass'n (1987)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 117 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Enmund v. Florida · 424 So. 2d 726 - Florida Bar v. Merwin
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“here there was sufficient evidence from which the jury could have found appellant guilty of premeditated murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. Dugger
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.