State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2012
22 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 Johnson v. Moses · Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. Zim Israel Navigation Co. · Miller v. United States · Faught Ex Rel. Faught v. Washam · State v. Stevens
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even if you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Billy Lynch was robbed, nevertheless, if you do not find and believe from the evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, that at the time of the alleged robbery, referred to in Instruction No. -, the defendant was the person who committed the act, you must find the defendant not guilty of the offense of robbery.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Drake · State v. Calvert“If any mother or father of any infant child under the age of sixteen years, ... or any other person having the care and control 6 of any such infant, shall unlawfully and purposely assault, beat, wound or injure such infant, whereby its life shall be endangered or its person or health shall have been or shall be likely to be injured, the person so offending shall, upon conviction, be punished ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turpen v. Rouse
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.