State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2013
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · In re Disbarment of Adelman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conceivably, a nonlawyer might do a law-yerly enough job, but if the criminal justice system is to maintain its structural integrity, if it is to have the public’s trust, then an accused must be represented by counsel who has received the training necessary for admission to the bar and who, as a lawyer admitted to the bar, is subject to the court’s supervision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cantu v. State“We can conceive, too, that there may be a rare case when the substantive reasons for loss of licensure are so egregious, so notoriously bad, that it might be said that these reasons alone render the proceedings unfair and unreliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cantu 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.