515 So. 2d 182 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Tibbs v. Florida · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Spaziano v. Florida · 246 So. 2d 771 - Richardson v. State · Connecticut Performing Arts Foundation, Inc. v. Brown
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough we find that one of the five aggravating circumstances relied on by the trial court was invalid, we approve the death sentence on the basis that a jury recommendation of death is entitled to great weight and there were no mitigating circumstances to counterbalance the four valid aggravating circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sochor v. Florida · Mann v. Dugger“the jury instructions properly stress the importance of the jury role”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mann v. Dugger
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.