State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2016
14 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 Darden v. Wainwright · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Attwood v. Singletary · State v. Williams
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] witness may be impeached by the introduction of contradictory evidence of other witnesses as long as the evidence is in fact contradictory ... and that evidence does not relate to a collateral matter. ... A contradiction is not collateral if it is relevant to a material issue in the case apart from its tendency to contradict a witness. ... Whether extrinsic evidence contradicts testimony of a witness so as to require its introduction into evidence for impeachment purposes is within the trial court's discretion, subject to review only for abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.