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) 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“if each offense requires proof of a fact that the other does not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. ROUTLEY
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.