Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2016
13 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 Baggett v. Bullitt · United States v. Mazurie · Harris v. State · Davis v. State · Hinkle 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person is justified in engaging in conduct otherwise prohibited if he has legal authority to do so.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law is well settled that a parent has the right to administer proper and reasonable chastisement to his child without being guilty of an assault and battery. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State · Willis v. State
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.