Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1998
3 federal appellate · 8 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 63 Cal. 2d 671 - People v. Ridley · State v. Mendoza · 65 Cal. 2d 330 - In Re Henry · Lawson v. State · Shackelford v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a defendant employs a knife in the commission of a robbery inflicting wounds on the victim, the defendant’s conviction for assault and battery with a deadly weapon with intent to kill is a bar to prosecution for robbery with a dangerous weapon arising out of the same event as the offenses were incident to but one obj ective.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bray v. Page““A defendant convicted of robbery by firearms cannot be additionally convicted and sentenced for possession of the narcotics taken in that robbery where the evidence shows there was but one criminal act which incidentally violated more than one statute.” 481 P.2d at 164 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bray v. Page
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.