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← 478 Mich. 292 - People v. Smith

People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 26 U.S.C. § 692

Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the killing of a human being, (2) with the intent to kill, to do great bodily harm, or to create a very high risk of death or great bodily harm with knowledge that death or great bodily harm was the probable result[,] i.e., malice, (3) while committing, attempting to commit, or assisting in the commission of any of the ... specifically enumerated [predicate felonies] in M[ich], C[omp]. Laws § 750.3161(l)(b)....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “if each offense requires proof of a fact that the other does not.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.