People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 14071 (§ 170101 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Koon v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Legislature did not contemplate a defendant with such a high OV score, given that it used 100 OV points as the maximum for the grid.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Kurtz · People v. Howard“[a] sentence cannot be upheld when the connection between the reasons given for departure and the extent of the departure is unclear.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Kurtz · People v. Howard“render a proportionate sentence above the highest minimum for someone with a similar PRV score”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Kurtz · People v. Howard
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.