State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 828 So. 2d 622 - State v. Allen (2002), 599 So. 2d 326 - State v. Bellamy (1992)
27 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Bottoson v. Florida · 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · 436 So. 2d 471 - State v. Sutton · 445 So. 2d 1198 - State v. Wright
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he state may prove a defendant guilty by showing that he served as a principal to the crime by aiding and abetting another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arnold · State v. Freeman“"Despite the general prohibition against other crimes evidence, there are different considerations in force when the defendant affirmatively raises specific issues of fact which the otherwise inadmissible evidence becomes necessary to rebut. See State v. Morris, 362 So.2d 1379 (La.1978); State v. Batiste, 363 So.2d 639 (La.1978) (on rehearing). By taking the stand, mentioning the prior incident and attempting to exculpate himself, he `opened the door' to the issue and entitled the state to contradict his account. State v. Kelly, 456 So.2d 642 (La.App. 2d Cir.1984), writ denied, 461 So.2d 312 (La.1984); State v. Scroggins, 465 So.2d 820 (La.App. 2d Cir.1985), writ granted on other grounds 469 So.2d 975 (La.1985), reconsider. denied, 472 So.2d 914 (La.1985). Furthermore, the state has a broad right of cross-examination of the defendant, La.R.S. 15:462, as well as a right to impeach any witness, La.R.S. 15:484. When Smith took the stand with his exculpatory account of the Midway incident, the state carefully cross-examined him to see whether he would stand by his testimony, and then called a witness to contradict him. Cecil Harper's account of the Midway incident was significantly different from Smith's. This testimony was admissible to contradict Smith, rather than to prove the state's case. State v. Hatter, 338 So.2d 100 (La.1976); State v. Diggs, 261 La. 76 , 259 So.2d 18 (1972)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson“[T]he taking of anything of value belonging to another from the person of another, or that is in the immediate control of another, by use of force or intimidation, when the offender leads the victim to reasonably believe he is armed with a dangerous weapon. Principals is defined in La.R.S. 14:24 as: All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether present or absent, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, aid and abet in its commission, or directly or indirectly counsel or procure another to commit the crime, are principals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cayton
How this case has been treated — in progress
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