State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 219 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 226 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Bey (1999), State v. Lowe (1994)
1 federal appellate · 219 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 Chapman v. State of California · Ohio v. Roberts · State v. Jenkins · State v. Deem · Public Service Commission v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
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 226 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Other acts' may be introduced to establish the identity of a perpetrator by showing that he has committed similar crimes and that a distinct, identifiable scheme, plan, or system was used in the commission of the charged offense.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n any criminal case in which the defendant's motive or intent, *** scheme, plan, or system of doing an act is material, any acts of the defendant which tend to show [this] *** may be proved, whether they are contemporaneous with or prior or *Page 16 subsequent thereto, notwithstanding that such proof may show or tend to show the commission of another crime by the defendant”
6 later decisions 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.