State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Pinnock (1992), State v. Jones (1984)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 135 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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.
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that it is the duty of the presiding judge at criminal trials ... to be visibly present every moment of their actual progress, so that he can both see and hear all that is being done. This is a right secured to the accused by the law of the land, of which he cannot be deprived. All the formalities of the trial should be scrupulously observed, so that the people present may see and know that everything is properly and rightfully done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peri 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.