Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably Lowery v. State (1994), Fayson v. State (2000)
28 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 Strickland v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh · Johnson v. Righetti · Jones v. Howard
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In reviewing a charge of prosecutorial misconduct, this Court first determines whether there was misconduct by the prosecutor, and second, considers whether that misconduct under all the cireumstances placed the defendant in a position of grave peril to which he should not have been subjected. This position is measured by the probable persuasive effect of any misconduct on the jury's decision and whether there were repeated instances of misconduct which would evidence a deliberate attempt to improperly prejudice the defendant."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Schnitz v. State · Fleenor v. State“'cooperative conduct in the criminal enterprise'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) A person conspires to commit a felony when, with intent to commit the felony, he agrees with another person to commit the felony. A conspiracy to commit a felony is a felony of the same class as the underlying felony.... (b) The State must allege and prove that either the person or the person with whom he agreed performed an overt act in furtherance of the agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jaske v. State · Parker 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.