State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1,530 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,535 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Xie (1992), 68 Ohio App. 2d 211 - State v. Peterseim (1980)
2 federal appellate · 1,530 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Stovall v. Denno · Carnley v. Cochran · Difronzo v. United States · Moore v. State of Michigan
Cited together with State v. Xie · Strickland v. Washington · Blakemore v. Blakemore · State ex rel. Schneider v. Kreiner · Hill v. Lockhart
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 1,535 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion made pursuant to Crim.R. 32.1 is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and the good faith, credibility and weight of the movant's assertions in support of the motion are matters to be resolved by that court.”
131 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his term [manifest injustice] has been variously defined, but it is clear that under such standard, a post-sentence withdrawal motion is allowable only in extraordinary cases.”
56 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]efore sentencing, the inconvenience to court and prosecution resulting from a change of plea is ordinarily slight as compared with the public interest in protecting the right of the accused to trial by jury. But if a plea of guilty could be retracted with ease after sentence, the accused might be encouraged to plead guilty to test the weight of potential punishment, and withdraw the plea if the sentence were unexpectedly severe. * * *”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.