Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Villegas v. Carter (1986), Johnson v. Buck (1976)
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Roosth & Genecov Production Co. v. White · State v. Sewell · Pruett v. State · State v. Biggers · State v. O'DOWD
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether a witness is competent to testify is a question of law to be decided by the trial judge. Whether a witness is credible is a fact question that goes to the-weight of the witness’s testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Logan v. Barge““On cross examination of an adverse witness, anything may be shown which might affect the witness’ credibility, such as bias, interest and prejudice, and a wide latitude is allowed in such matters.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Logan v. Barge
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.