Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1995
19 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 Ramos v. State · Fisk v. State · Jones v. State · 165 Tex. Crim. 244 - Martinez v. State · 167 Tex. Crim. 43 - Dowling 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court under the law is not permitted to answer the question which you have presented. Please consider only the instructions which have already been given and continue with your deliberations.” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blount v. State““In event that we the jury assess 10 or less years without a probation recommendation is it within the legal power of the court to grant probation ?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Story 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.