Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Granviel v. State (1976), Smith v. Estelle (1979)
31 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Mooney v. Holohan · Bridges v. United States · Territo v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the instant case, there was no legal charge or accusation filed against the witness for the events of July, 1973 (disappearance of money at his place of employment). There was no evidence that this occurrence had any connection with the alleged robbery in January, six months earlier, and the rejected evidence was in no way shown to be relevant on the issue of motive or self-interest. See Huffman v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 479 S.W.2d 62, 67 . . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moreno v. State“great latitude should be allowed a defendant in showing any fact which would tend to establish ill feelings, bias, motive and animus on the part of any witness testifying against him,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greene 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.