496 So. 2d 971 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2014
10 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 Anders v. California · Eskridge v. Washington State Board of Prison Terms & Paroles · 290 So. 2d 30 - State v. Davis · 378 So. 2d 899 - Reed v. State · 485 So. 2d 875 - Stokes 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appellate counsel conclude[s] that he or she cannot make any reasonable argument in respect to the designated acts, then he or she should, before filing a brief in this court, discuss the designated judicial acts with trial counsel and communicate with the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ounsel should ... present such argument as can reasonably be made in support of the defendant's position on each designated act, with appropriate citation to the record and pertinent authority, if there is any.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forrester v. State“to anything in the record that might arguably support the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forrester 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.