State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2018
16 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 180 Ind. App. 679 - Pillars v. State · State Ex Rel. O'Donnell v. Cass Superior Court · State Ex Rel. Brumfield v. Perry Circuit Court · Martin v. State · Vaughan v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“, Even if we assume that the State's evidence established that it was engaged in plea negotiations with Smith over the entire one-year period, this does not establish that anything Smith or his attorney did caused an actual delay or prevented the State from scheduling the trial. Smith was under no duty to remind the State that the one-year period was running out, and the State was under no compulsion to allow the period to expire while waiting for Smith's re-Indeed, if the State was dissatisfied with the progress of the negotiations, it could have simply requested: the court to set a timely trial date and required Smith to obtain a continuance to pursue the negotiations. sponse to its plea offer. This the State did not do. Thus, the State's uncontroverted evidence demonstrates nothing more than that it failed to perform its affirmative duty to see that Smith was tried within one year.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Leek v. State · State v. Huber“there is no written documentation of the plea negotiations or their progress, and an agreement was never reduced to writing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pond 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.